The Future of Leadership

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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. A Brief History and the Future of Leadership.- 2. The Quest for a Paradigm Shift in Leadership for the Next Decade and Beyond.- 3. Leadership in Indian High-Tech Start-Ups: Lessons for Future.- 4. Complexity: The Tipping Point for Leadership.- 5. Leadership in the Next Decade and Beyond: The Challenges of Managing Cities in Developing Economies.- 6. The Future of Women in Leadership, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: A Global Perspective.- 7. Leadership in the Next Decade: Data Analytics Transforming Information to Knowledge.- 8. Future of Leadership in Healthcare Business: A Global Perspective.- 9. Non-profit Leadership and Decision-Making: Radical Choice Application for Non-profit's Sustainability.