25 years anniversary of IEDC: New times require different leaders
Today I have attended the IEDC Bled School of Management’s Annual President’s Forum. More than 450 business and political leaders, professors, alumni and friends of IEDC from 36 countries were there to attend the Ceremony dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the School, opened by the President of the Republic of Slovenia Dr. Danilo Türk. My role was twofold: as a faculty member at IEDC and as a Member of the Executive Board at BISOL Group (my colleague, Vicepresident of BISOL Group, Marko Policnik, was also with me).
The purpose however was not just to celebrate, but to tackle the challenge of leadership in the 21st century. There were several interesting speeches from world top thinkers and even founders of the fields of leadership (Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries, Dr. Ichak Adizes), organizational psychology (Prof. Edgar Schein), and cross cultural and global leadership (Prof. Dr. Nancy Adler). Along with other experts and gurus discussing in two panels, they offered an outlook on the future.
Besides the visionary but exemplary content, the networking was a blast. Such was also the setting – Brdo pri Kranju is Slovenian premier conference venue, nestled among the Alps.