MODERN LEADERSHIP FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL, COGNITIVE, AND SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A STUDY ON RESULTS, SOFT SKILLS, AND INVISIBLE CULTURES

Abstract

Leadership in the 21st-century landscape transcends the classical managerial framework, establishing itself as a symbolic navigation process within internal corporate ecosystems. This article provides a diagnostic study of the dilemmas confronting leaders, mobilizing the analytical triad of Psychological, Cognitive, and Sociocultural Anthropology. Through literature review and comparative data interpretation (Brazil-Global), the research focuses on the discrepancy between high pressure for quantitative metrics and the urgent demand for soft skills. The investigation seeks to clarify: In what ways do inherited symbolic legacies and neurocognitive biases limit contemporary leadership’s ability to authentically integrate soft skills and foster a genuinely regenerative organizational culture? Based on a robust theoretical framework and documentary analysis, Regenerative Leadership is proposed as a conceptual model that requires the deprogramming of ancestral mental patterns and the construction of new cultural codes, constituting an original contribution to overcoming the anthropological crisis of leadership.