Leadership In Different Arenas

All will agree that there is an unprecedented interest in leadership, in strategy and in strategising both in academia and in the business world. Bold ideas and practices are subject for experimenting and are being disseminated across a wide range of contexts from the micro level of firms and businesses to the mezzo and macro levels of regions and nations. There are numerous and readily visible manifestations of this surge of interest in strategic leadership at various levels. An emerging paradigm of new insights is strongly affirming itself and gradually taking place. It dictates the necessity of new characteristics and new problem solving methods imposed by the dramatic increase in global transactions, integrated global technologies and uniform way of life. This book has emerged from a research project reflecting about these challenging and sometimes intriguing theories, hypotheses and subsequent practices that have been launched during the last decade. These new grounds constitute new strategic contexts for leaders, bringing to the fore what is today the forefront of strategic-leadership research.