Leadership Evolution for Planetary Health: A Genomics Perspective

Jacinta T Ryan, Sandra Jones, Peter A Hayes and Jeffrey M Craig
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Jacinta T Ryan: School of Management, College of Business, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
Sandra Jones: School of Management, College of Business, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
Peter A Hayes: School of Management, College of Business, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
Jeffrey M Craig: Centre for Molecular and Medical Research, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia

Challenges, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: We are living in the Anthropocene period, where human activity has become the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Addressing the question of how nature and societies will evolve in the Anthropocene is one of the grand challenges of our time. This challenge requires a new form of leadership, one capable of transmuting the eroding relationship between business, society and nature. Yet at this critical time, leadership theory is at a crossroads, with many arguing that leadership, as a field of study, should be abandoned. Operating in parallel to this Anthropocene challenge is an increasing understanding of the complexity of the genome, including the inherent plasticity of our genomic hierarchies, and the influence of the genome on health, disease and evolution. This has demanded a change in thinking to view the genome from an evolutionary systems perspective. To address the imbalance presented by the Anthropocene, we propose using a genomic lens as the basis for thinking about leadership evolution. In arguing this, we aim to provide the pathway for an improved synergistic relationship between business, society and nature, one that can guide the future of humanity in the unstable world we have created.

Keywords: leadership; genome; epigenetics; evolution; adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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