Advances in Global Leadership

What are some of the themes and patterns that emerge from the chapters in this volume, and the broader literature on global leadership and global leadership development? Trust plays a central role in building social capital and economic success in global organizations (Hitt, Keats & Yucel); in facilitating the regulators of the centrifugal and centripetal tensions in global organizations (Hofmeister & Parker); and in leading and teaming at a distance (Davis & Bryant). Influence tactics of rational persuasion, consultation, collaboration and appraising were identified as effective tactics across all 11 countries studied by Kennedy, Fu and Yukl. In a similar vein, Denison et al., found similar patterns of effective corporate cultures around the world, and Smith in his research continually finds that managers everywhere rely more on their own experience and training than on any other source of guidance. When looking at the goal of executive development for global leaders, it should be comforting that there are similarities in effectiveness despite huge differences in national cultures.