Citation
Berry, A.J. (2002), "Editorial", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj.2002.02223aaa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Editorial
The terrible conflict around terrorism and Afghanistan shows the sea in which leadership and organisational development swims is one of deep cultural, religious and political differences and to assume that leaders and leadership models can be readily transported across these differences is a mistake.
These stresses in the world, far from closing our minds, must encourage us to understanding and to pay greater and more careful attention to the context within which theories and ideas about leadership and organisational development are expressed and within which leaders and change generators must perforce act.
The Leadership & Organization Development Journal has been pleased to publish many papers from across the world on these themes. The urgency of the new cultural, religious and ethical changes to our world (dis)order are very real. They require us, as an academic, professional and managerial community of practice and learning, to continue to provide a forum for knowledge and debate about leadership and organisational development both within cultural contexts and also across them.
Sue Cartwright, just retired from the role, and I, as editors, have been pleased to be offered your manuscripts. I will continue to welcome research and professional papers which offer readers papers which contribute to a wider understanding of the cultural, religious and political milieux within which leadership and organisational development is to be understood, and within which leaders and managers must act.
Anthony J. Berry