Understanding Leadership Challenges: A Framework

A. S. Bhalla

Chapter Chapter 3 in National and Global Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2023, pp 79-108 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter proposes an integrated institutional framework of “leaders-agents-followers” for an assessment of the successes and failures of a leader. The three key actors in the current fight against the Coronavirus pandemic are: (1) Leaders (political, scientific, industry, academic), (2) agents (public health departments, centres for disease control, educational and scientific institutions, multilateral organizations) and (3) followers (citizens, public, local community). A benevolent relationship of cooperation and synergy ensures success, whereas a conflictual one of competition is doomed to failure. All three actors need to be in sync to attain success, but this condition is fulfilled in only a very few countries which are mostly located in Asia. In other countries, political leaders were in denial about the pandemic and failed to provide any incentives to agents and followers to comply with the public health rules and guidelines.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29521-8_3

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