Confidence in global leaders remains low.

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The quality of leadership in organisations around the world is poor - with leaders stifling innovation and holding back new ways to do business because they are risk averse and focused on their own survival.

Those are the damning findings from the sixth edition of the Global Leadership Forecast, a bi-annual report by consultants Development Dimensions International (DDI), which this year partnered with Gary Hamel's Management Lab to examine how organisations' management cultures have evolved.

The report concluded that the leadership practices in most US organisations in particular received a resounding thumbs-down, with only a quarter of employees rating the quality of leadership in their organisation as very good or excellent, and just a third of leaders giving themselves and their peers high marks.

The numbers were consistent with the same study conducted two years previously, suggesting that little progress has been made on the quality of leadership, despite...

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