Worldly leadership
Subtitle: alternative wisdoms for a complex world
By: Edited By Sharon Turnbull, Peter Case, Gareth Edwards, Doris Schedlitzki, and Peter Simpson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780230284708
Subjects: Leadership; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership
Description: Worldly Leadership brings together non-western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. It offers a number of different ways of thinking about the process of leadership and presents a challenge to conventional mainstream theory. Each chapter draws on recent research from different cultures and societies to bring alternative leadership wisdoms and insights into the practice of leadership for today's complex world. As such, this book calls for a polling of contemporary and ancient leadership wisdoms from all parts of the globe and contrasts these with the popular construct of 'global leadership'. Scholars and practitioners who believe in the 'globality' of management and leadership relate global leadership to multiple organizational themes such as change, culture, performance, values, globalization, environment, vision and strategy. However, what concerns the authors of this book is how leadership is practised in contemporary organizations and whether it is meaningful to speak of 'global leadership' at all.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.