Global Leadership

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

The Challenges of Global Leadership

Abstract: Global leadership is particularly challenging for companies because differences in leadership expectations and management practices across cultures are not always apparent; communicating, motivating, and managing are more difficult due to language, geography, and cultural barriers; monitoring and tracking represent significant challenges due to distance; cultural differences are sometimes used as a rationalization for performance issues or resistance to change; complex organization designs such as matrix and network structures can complicate reporting relationships and accountabilities; influence without authority is a competency that takes effort and skill; and the opportunity costs are not always visible to corporate headquarters. One area where successful global leaders can make a difference is in becoming aware of and adapting their behavior when engaging in cross-cultural interactions: greeting someone, establishing rapport; leading a team; conducting a meeting or participating in a meeting; providing instructions, guidance, coaching, or teaching; resolving disagreement and conflicts; negotiating; motivating others; and giving and receiving feedback. Henson offers a simple approach to help global leaders become effective in these cross-cultural encounters.

The Role of Law and Governance Reform in the Global Response to Non-Communicable Diseases

Abstract: Addressing non-communicable diseases (“NCDs”) and their risk-factors is one of the most powerful ways of improving longevity and healthy life expectancy for the foreseeable future – especially in low- and middle-income countries. This paper reviews the role of law and governance reform in that process. We highlight the need for a comprehensive approach that is grounded in the right to health and addresses three aspects: preventing NCDs and their risk factors, improving access to NCD treatments, and addressing the social impacts of illness. We highlight some of the major impediments to the passage and implementation of laws for the prevention and control of NCDs, and identify important practical steps that governments can take as they consider legal and governance reforms at country level. We review the emerging global architecture for NCDs, and emphasise the need for governance structures to harness the energy of civil society organisations and to create a global movement that influences the policy agenda at the country level. We also argue that the global monitoring framework would be more effective if it included key legal and policy indicators. The paper identifies priorities for technical legal assistance in implementing the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020. These include high-quality legal resources to assist countries to evaluate reform options, investment in legal capacity building, and global leadership to respond to the likely increase in requests by countries for technical legal assistance. We urge development agencies and other funders to recognise the need for development assistance in these areas. Throughout the paper, we point to global experience in dealing with HIV and draw out some relevant lessons for NCDs.

Entrepreneurs : agents for change

Abstract: As entrepreneurs we need to start a new chapter in our history in all the colours of the world, no longer as black and white, but as South African business asserting itself nationally and in the world. And I invite global leaders and leaders of tomorrow to come and partner with us. The African continent is there for the taking. Africa is a fertile ground with massive natural resources to be exploited. As you position yourselves to take advantage of these opportunities, do not ignore the recent history of our continent.

Japan′s Quest for Global Leadership in IT

Abstract: Over the past three decades, the Japanese information technology industry has been questing for global leadership. With the help of keiretsu, a special social organization, and government agencies, those giant information technology companies such as NEC, Fujitsu, etc. have become the leaders in dynamic random access memory chips (DRAM), disk storage devices, video display, fuzzy logic and neural networks. Proposes some strategies to counter the actions taken by the Japanese firms.

A perspective on the changing nature of R&D investment and collaboration in the Asian-Pacific

Abstract: The global leadership of science and technology appears to be pivoting towards the Asian Pacific as measured by available funding, scientific output, and growth of R&D infrastructure and professional workforce. The emerging dynamics of this shift and its implications of this for future strategic investment and collaboration between the US and Asian fundamental science communities are addressed. In particular, this paper examines the impact on sponsorship of foreign fundamental R&D by agencies of the US government which has been of historic value to advancing the global state of knowledge and technologies in a number of domains.