Abstract
Russia plunged into a deep leadership crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attempt to implement western leadership models only deepened the crisis. With the take over of power by Vladimir Putin a new leadership theory evolved, which looked critically at western models. Totalitarianism, contextuality, cultural sensibility and pragmatism are issues being investigated with respect to leadership. This article includes these themes whilst reflecting on the critical dialogue between the American leadership expert Stephen R. Covey and his Russian critic Vladimir Tarassenko.
Highlights
Wanneer westerse leierskapsmodelle ’n gemengde seën is Rusland is ná die ineenstorting van die Sowjetunie in ’n ernstige leierskapskrisis gedompel
The collapse of the Soviet system led in several ways to a social crisis – this was caused by the ideological and spiritual vacuum that had emerged in Russia
We could rely on nobody, we moved according to our intuition
Summary
Such a crisis is known to result in a leadership crisis. The young Russian government team was led by western economic strategists In the end it was the western economists who prescribed the shock therapy which they claimed would lead directly to a “capitalist paradise”. A realistic strategy for transformation should take into consideration that systemic changes include an evolutionary process and require gradual learning by people as well as of organisations and society collectively He suggested that the approach that ought to be followed was that of a mixed post-Soviet economy (Chavance, 1994:210). It seems to be useful, to use the example of an academic discourse on the subject of leadership between representatives of the West and the present Russia to explain what constitutes the “third Russian leadership path”
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