04.3
Leadership 4.0
The generation the practice names for a strategy that has to move.
Leadership 4.0 is the latest generation on the published list. In the founder’s own account of this practice, the mentoring of Ronald Stern describes a 4.0 world as liquid, like water: sometimes a gentle flow, sometimes force, on the route the strategy is meant to take. That image belongs to the mentoring account. The practice uses it as a test, not as a metaphor to decorate a slide.
The test is practical. Can this step move without being rebuilt in every meeting? If the step only exists while its author is talking, it is not yet 4.0. If another officer can carry it, and the ladder still holds, the generation fits.
Internet of Things language shows up in that same account because the founder was reading strategy against a world of connected systems. This sheet does not turn the practice into a technology supplier. It keeps the question the account actually asks: does the strategy flow when the room changes.