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In search of global leadership
Wanasika, Issac
Wanasika, Issac
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Globalization continues to affect organizations at different levels. This calls for a corresponding shift in global leadership paradigms. Strategic leaders in organizations require a more diverse repertoire of attributes to effectively confront emerging global challenges such as free flow of capital and labor, changing technologies and cultural dynamics. Further, global effects are not confined to global organizations. Previous research on strategic leaders has borrowed leader characteristics from other disciplines. Such characteristics do not fully address current and emergent issues confronting strategic leaders in organizations. This study integrates essential strategic leader characteristics necessary to effectively manage globalization and steer the organization towards better strategic focus with respect to environmental turbulence. Essential strategic leader characteristics are future orientation, propensity to take action, propensity to take risks, and absorptive capacity. Combinatory effects of strategic leader characteristics are essential for effective strategic focus.
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2009-02
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