Writing in the book, Manifesto for Singapore: Learning Metropolis of the World, Dilip Mukerkea shares his thoughts about 21st Century Leadership:

21st Century Leaders needs a suite of competencies and literacies that include: 

• stewardship a sense of care and compasion to nurture and nourish their followers; 
• vision a clear, sacramental mandate, to establish a beacon, so the nation can advance towards it, in a quest for the best; 
• passion to provide the driving force to forge success, especially in the face of adversity, to convert adversity into an asset; 
• integrity to lead with stainless credentials so that nothing can dilute the life-force of the vision; 
• trustworthiness an unblemished presence that inspires the followers to believe in the leader’s intentions, insights, and incorruptibility of purpose; 
• curiosity in an age of relentless change, to preserve a sense of wonder and inquiry into the dynamics of life; 
• learning to be an incessant self-educationist, and aim thus to be a leading learner and a learning leader; 
• daring to not just dare to go forth in the face of danger, but to also dare to fail, to dream, to experiment, to speak up, to live! 
• successorship leaders are breeders of leaders and thus, they must have in place options for a successor(s) in anticipation of transformations. 

Thus, the leader of today, and tomorrow, must be ready to SHIFT LEARN TRANSFORM in order to stay abreast of transcendental transformations.