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<\/a>Men vs Women leaders<\/p><\/div>\n
“When probing how well the two genders of leaders perform on key leadership attributes, female leaders were seen as markedly better at displaying far more of the attributes deemed important for effective leaders \u2013 with women ranking at the top on all except four of the 14 attributes we looked at and on every one of the four attributes deemed most important by the public,” Ketchum said.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the research also found that, globally, male leaders narrowly edge out their female counterparts \u2013 54% to 46% \u2013 as the gender the world expects to navigate us through the challenges of the next five years.<\/p>\n
“This is not to say that all future leaders should be women and that men have no place in leadership. Rather, our findings reveal vitally important lessons for leaders of both genders as they continue to grapple with the ongoing leadership crisis.”<\/p>\n
Geographically, China, India, Singapore, and Great Britain showed overall support for male leaders, while South Africa, Spain, Germany, and Brazil favoured female leaders.<\/p>\n
Leadership crisis<\/h3>\n
Overall, the report found that a global leadership \u201ccrisis\u201d stubbornly persists, as consumers continue to be disillusioned with their leaders.<\/p>\n
“Looking at leaders in business, government, community service, trade\/labour unions and the not-for-profit sector, only 22% of those surveyed feel leaders are demonstrating effective leadership \u2013 down from last year \u2013 and even fewer than that are optimistic about seeing any improvement in leadership over the coming year,” Ketchum said.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Disillusionment Index<\/p><\/div>\n
KLCM’s Global Disillusionment Index shows that Europeans are far less impressed with leaders than the US, Singapore, China, Brazil, India and the UAE \u2013 the UK, Spain and France being especially unimpressed.<\/p>\n
European countries took 5 of the 6 bottom slots in the Index, with only South Africa breaking into European malaise, the group said.<\/p>\n
Despite the apparent “crisis”, leaders in the technology industry rank far higher than any other industry – while the banking industry, while improving since 2013, dropped straight to the bottom of the pile.<\/p>\n
“Technology leads the KLCM Global Industry Leadership Index, coming top across every key measure \u2013 from leadership and communication to taking responsibility and meeting consumer expectations,” the group said.<\/p>\n