Leadership
is Global
Co-creating a Humane and Sustainable
World
Global Leadership Network (GLN) co-chairs and Leadership
is Global co-editors Walter Link (Europe), Thais
Corral (Brazil) and Mark Gerzon (USA) are happy to present
you with the first independent, globally designed book
on "global leadership" featuring the writings
of 22 distinguished co-authors from all around the world.
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About the book & what we mean by "global"
No single author can possibly hope to capture and integrate
the awesome complexity of today’s global leadership
challenges and opportunities. We need each other to collectively
understand and bring to life a new paradigm of leadership
and cooperation to address the world’s diverse challenges
and opportunities.
We therefore invite you to join this crucial dialogue
about global developments and inspiring as well as pragmatic
leadership approaches, which this book and our network
hosts for the co-authors - each writing from the diversity
of their individual and cultural dignity, while also representing
the potential unity of our shared humanity.
A generation ago, more than a dozen women from around
the world co-wrote a book called Sisterhood Is Global, which
helped to catalyze and define the global women’s
movement that changed the world in profound ways. We chose
our title out of respect for this and other movements,
which crucially advance a new paradigm of civilization
and leadership so sorely needed in today’s world
in which our many challenges threaten our very survival
and limit us from recognizing and implementing our many
opportunities.
Instead of realizing that "global" solutions
require new and integral leadership perspectives and practices,
we too often assume that we can apply to the whole world
the same old bag of tricks we inherited from our families
and cultures, professions and political backgrounds – but
these old leadership approaches are exactly what brought
us to the brink. Instead, we need to hear and learn from
each other. In inspired dialogue and pragmatic implementation,
we need to find solutions that arise from the richness
of our diversity as well as from the depth of our shared
humanity to support our joint sustainability.
The global solutions we seek must unite us across all
potential divides - ethnicity and culture, religion
and politics, societal sectors and social classes, professions
and types of organizations, the "inner’ and
the "outer’, heart and mind – divisions,
which are as problematic and often more unconscious than
the national borders we are used to acknowledging. Our
definition of ‘global leadership’ therefore
attempts to include and bridge all these aspects of our
diversity.
What the book’s 21 chapters have in common is the
focus on leadership in an interdependent world and the
ways we can effectively work together. They ask fundamental
questions, which today every leader, irrespective of profession
or nationality needs to address.
Book Launches & First Reactions
We were delighted to launch Leadership is Global with
an opening keynote and a series of workshops at the 2006
annual conference of the International Leadership Association,
one of the world’s premier global organizations devoted
to fostering cross-cultural leadership education and practice.
Since then, further launches have happened in countries
around the world and will continue throughout 2007. We
are in discussions with publishers in other countries to
bring the book out n diverse languages. Contact us if you
want to host a launch or publish the book in your country.
Reactions have been very positive. Leaders and leadership
practitioners are enthusiastic. Professors have ordered
books for their classes and confirmed that this has been
the book they have been waiting for to teach Global Leadership.
If you have suggestions for a book launch, please le us
know.
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Book Orders and Funding
Leadership is Global is a labor of love for which
neither the co-authors nor the co-editors have been paid.
In fact only through the financial and in-kind support
of GLN and its member, in particular the Global Academy
(www.theglobalacademy.org), REDEH (Network for Human
Development – www.redeh.org.br) and Mediators Foundation
(www.mediatorsfoundation.org) as well as the Shinnyo-en
Foundation (www.sef.org), which paid for the first printing
and other costs, was it possible to produce and distribute
this book to leading thinkers and actors in the field.
In order for GLN to provide copies to additional individuals
and institutions around the world, and to develop a follow-on
textbook and curriculum, we will need to raise additional
funding. If you feel so moved, we would greatly appreciate
a donation or a referral to a funder or foundation, which
might be interested in supporting this work. Donations
are tax deductible in various countries. Any amount is
most welcome. We also sell copies for $25 plus shipping & handling
(10% less for bulk). Please contact
us for orders of
5 books or more.
To contact us about a donation or to buy bulk copies,
please write to hck@theglobalacademy.org.
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