Preface

Abstract

It is hard to believe we are delivering Volume 7 of Advances in Global Leadership (AGL). In the 14 years since we started this series, so much has changed in the world and the rapidity of that change has continued to accelerate. Berman and Korsten (2010) documented that the biggest challenge facing global leaders is the rapid escalation of complexity. The context of our Volume 7 illustrates some of this complexity in the continued demonstration of our global interdependence as the global economic crisis persists with a number of deepening country and region specific financial crises impacting the remainder of the world. Indeed, the challenge of finding meaning and direction and gaining consensus on a plan of action in the face of global interrelatedness and complexity are amply evident in the United States’ continued fumbling of its debt crisis and the European Union's recent attempts at coordination to avert, at least in the short run, the debt crisis in some of its member countries.

Citation

Mobley, W.H. (2012), "Preface", Mobley, W.H., Wang, Y. and Li, M. (Ed.) Advances in Global Leadership (Advances in Global Leadership, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xv-xviii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-1203(2012)0000007003