Global Leadership

About: Global Leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1598 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29200 citations.

Global Leadership: A Developmental Shift for Everyone

Abstract: Global leaders operate in a context of multicultural, paradoxical complexity in the world—a context that most leaders find themselves facing today. We argue that 4 developmental shifts are required to be effective in this context: developing multicultural effectiveness, becoming adept at managing paradoxes, cultivating the “being” dimension of human experience, and appreciating individual uniqueness in the context of cultural differences. Challenges for industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology are identified in each area. The article concludes by inviting I–O psychologists to integrate competing frameworks, explore related disciplines, revamp leadership competency models, create new tools and frameworks for developing global leaders, and step up to become global leaders ourselves.

Global Leadership: The Next Generation

Abstract: The follow-up to Marshall Goldsmith's 500,000-copy bestseller The Leader of the Future, Global Leadership: The Next Generation systematically identifies what tomorrow's leaders will need to know, do and believe in order to successfully lead the global enterprise of the future.Drawing on the results of an extraordinary 2-year Accenture study of emerging business leaders, this book shows why the skills of today's global leaders won't be enough--and why tomorrow's leaders won't resemble today's. Goldsmith and his co-authors first identify five new "factors of leadership" and their implications: global thinking, appreciation of diversity, technological savvy, a willingness to partner and an openness to sharing leadership. They explain what it will mean to lead in an era where intellectual capital is the dominant source of value; how to lead people whose backgrounds and values may be radically dissimilar from yours; and why achieving personal self-mastery is now a fundamental prerequisite for leading others.From the evolution of "federated," semi-autonomous organizational structures to the personal leadership challenges now arising from globalism, this book offers unprecedented insights into the new challenges of leadership--and what it will take to meet them.

Exploring the Role of “Global Mindset” in Leading Change in International Contexts

Abstract: In this article we introduce “global mindset” as an individual-level variable to help explain the effectiveness of managers leading change in international contexts. We describe and analyze an organization change effort at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Brazil with a focus on the degree to which the change leader possessed the intellectual, psychological, and social capitals that compose a global mindset. This is an exploratory analysis intended to help map out the key characteristics of managers associated with effectively leading change in cross-culturally complex situations.

An overview of the global leadership literature

Abstract: History is graced with leaders who fit most people’s definition of global leaderspolitical leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, military leaders like Alexander the Great, and spiritual leaders like Mother Theresa-whose impact and followers extended far beyond the borders of their own country. Such famous figures often capture the imagination and loyalty of a broad audience due to the confluence of their unique vision and its relevance to the environmental context. Difficult times demand constructive leaders just as surely as destructive leaders create difficult times. Today’s global leaders, however, are not necessarily famous; there are more and more of them performing less visible leadership roles in an increasingly complex, ambiguous, multicultural environment. Business CEOs with a reputation as change agents on a global scale are perhaps the first group that comes to mind for business students and practitioners, but people who integrate acquired companies into large transnational firms, who command coalition forces in the military, who run global non-profit organizations, and who lead multinational political organizations are all examples of current global leaders. Our definition of global leadership does not restrict global leaders to an organization’s upper echelon; anyone who leads global change efforts in the public, private, and non-profit sector is a global leader.