The Future of Leadership
Addressing Complex Global Issues
Editors: Thakkar, Bharat S. (Ed.)
Free Preview- -Looks at the global leadership skills and attributes that are needed to address the biggest issues of the 21st century, such as climate change and poverty
- -Proposes investing in the development of human capital in order to overcome the effects of automation on employment
- -Displays how technological advances can be used in future leadership trends
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- About this book
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This book deals with leadership trends in the next decade and beyond. It critically examines how knowledge management can be used to address emerging societal and business issues, such as sustaining complex product quality, controlling automation generated unemployment, increasing cyber insecurity in virtual workforce environment, and unstable government and market trends. These issues require unique leadership qualities to be effective in extremely challenging business and socio-political environments.
Included among the topics explored by the authors in this book are: investment for the development of diverse human capital, use of data analytics for performance improvement, declining demographic dividends in population deficient areas, and globally increasing women and minority education and employment.
Scholars in business and economics, and managers in industry and government will find this book to be a valuable resource in exploring new directions for the future development of leadership. - About the authors
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Bharat Thakkar, Ph.D., is CEO, PREM Group, Inc., a Consulting Firm in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. He has expertise in design of systems packaging, reliability management, and heavy machinery manufacturing management using design of experiments.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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A Brief History and the Future of Leadership
Pages 1-14
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The Quest for a Paradigm Shift in Leadership for the Next Decade and Beyond
Pages 15-37
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Leadership in Indian High-tech Start-ups: Lessons for Future
Pages 39-91
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Complexity: The Tipping Point for Leadership
Pages 93-124
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Leadership in the Next Decade and Beyond: The Challenges of Managing Cities in Developing Economies
Pages 125-143
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Future of Leadership
- Book Subtitle
- Addressing Complex Global Issues
- Editors
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- Bharat S. Thakkar
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-73870-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-73870-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-73869-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08876-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 277
- Number of Illustrations
- 30 b/w illustrations
- Topics
