6/11/2023 0 Comments Blue Grit by Ulf T. Kristoffersson![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Written with passion and sincerity, the contributions within it convey a degree of awareness, knowledge and inspiration that we hope will contribute to further strengthening the promise and the practice of UN leadership. This publication frames the bigger picture of UN leadership and presents experiences and ideas that speak to both its reality and potential. ![]() Poor leadership explains, to some extent, why the UN at times under-delivers on its promise, and why people lose faith in the organisation. But both the source of the doubt and the answer lie with the UN – its leadership culture and in leadership manifested by its professionals. Indeed, despite significant achievements since the organisation’s creation, public debate tends to focus on what is not delivered instead of what has been achieved. No sphere of human activity and no institution escape the interrogation, and perhaps nowhere else more than at the United Nations.įew would dispute that better leadership is essential for ensuring trust in the UN and in multilateralism, and for delivering more effective responses to today’s global challenges. The issue seems to be on everyone’s mind. Yet, efforts to understand leadership and to diagnose, even perhaps remedy, what some refer to as the lack, or the end or even the death of leadership in today’s world have only intensified over the past few years. ![]() Leadership, like art, is a fluid and lived experience, making it hard to define. ![]()
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