Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte, has spent his entire 34-year career in one place, climbing the corporate ladder. From his first unsupportive manager at the New York-based professional services firm to the mentors who helped pull him up through the ranks, Salzberg learned to lead and be led, eventually becoming CEO of Deloitte LLP in the United States in 2007. Now poised to take over as global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., on June 1, 2011, he has a message for the next generation of leaders: The old leadership hierarchy no longer works.

“Gone is the day of the old command-and-control environment, the climb-the-ladder model in which the employee kept quiet and didn’t say too much, certainly not much beyond what was asked and tasked,” Salzberg told his audience at a recent Wharton Leadership Lecture.

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