Worldly Leadership: Alternative Wisdoms for a Complex World

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 2-2
Introduction....Pages 3-16
National Language and its Importance for Worldly Leadership....Pages 17-31
Leadership Development as a Catalyst for Social Change: Lessons from a Pan-African Programme....Pages 32-51
The Internationalization of Leadership Development....Pages 52-67
Using the Worldly Leadership Lens to Approach the Task of Developing Women Leaders....Pages 68-84
Worldly Leadership and Concepts of Community....Pages 85-100
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Children’s Image of Leadership in China....Pages 105-134
Implicit Leadership in Iran: Differences between Leader and Boss and Gender....Pages 135-157
Leadership in the Arab Middle East: Does the Islamic Tradition Provide a Basis for ‘Worldly Leadership’?....Pages 158-170
Worldly Leadership through Local Knowledge: Discovering Voices of Emirati Women Business Leaders....Pages 171-191
Worldly Leadership in Pakistan Seth Organizations: An Empirical Challenge to the Concept of Global Leadership....Pages 192-205
Linking the Worldly Mindset with an Authentic Leadership Approach: An Exploratory Study in a Middle Eastern Context....Pages 206-222
The Modern Challenges Facing Traditional Igbo Village Leadership....Pages 223-233
Influences, Tensions and Competing Identities in Indian Business Leaders’ Stories....Pages 234-256
The Competing and Paradoxical Identities in the Narratives of Twenty-First-Century Russian Leaders....Pages 257-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-290