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What the US$113 billion leadership development industry is getting wrong

The rules of value creation have changed in a transparent world

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    • Businesses must shift to steward leadership – pursuing profitable sustainability as a core strategy, not a moral add-on.
    • Businesses must shift to steward leadership – pursuing profitable sustainability as a core strategy, not a moral add-on. ILLUSTRATION: PIXABAY

    Rajeev Peshawaria

    Published Thu, Apr 30, 2026 · 06:45 AM

    ASK any boardroom, policymaker, or your favourite chatbot to identify the defining challenges of our time, and the answers are remarkably consistent: geopolitical conflicts, geoeconomic fragmentation, misinformation, social inequality, climate risk, and the potentially negative consequences of artificial intelligence and technology use.

    Yet, amid the urgency to respond to these systemic threats, one profound shift remains underexamined – the collapse of opacity.

    We have entered what might be described as a “naked era” of radical transparency. 

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