The Future of Leadership

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii A Brief History and the Future of Leadership (Aqueil Ahmad)....Pages 1-14 The Quest for a Paradigm Shift in Leadership for the Next Decade and Beyond (Lydia M. Daniels)....Pages 15-37 Leadership in Indian High-tech Start-ups: Lessons for Future ( Deepal Joshi, Sarla Achuthan)....Pages 39-91 Complexity: The Tipping Point for Leadership (Kadambari Ram)....Pages 93-124 Leadership in the Next Decade and Beyond: The Challenges of Managing Cities in Developing Economies (Adebayo A. Adanri)....Pages 125-143 The Future of Women in Leadership, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: A Global Perspective (Ezenwayi C. Amaechi)....Pages 145-167 Leadership in the Next Decade: Data Analytics—Transforming Information to Knowledge (Thomas A. Seitz)....Pages 169-195 Future of Leadership in Healthcare Business: A Global Perspective (Nicolas M. Casati, Kartik Kesavabhotla, George R. Cybulski)....Pages 197-228 Nonprofit Leadership and Decision Making: Radical Choice Application for Nonprofit’s Sustainability (Christiana O. Ntamere)....Pages 229-274 Back Matter ....Pages 275-277