ABSTRACT
In 2000, a French multinational company introduced a competency-based leadership model to prepare competent successors for leadership roles in an expanding organization, and to formalize corporate expectations regarding leadership development. Although competency-based leadership is exceedingly popular in the organizational world, it is frequently critiqued in the academic community for perceived theoretical and empirical weaknesses, as well as perceived misapplica by nonscholars. The global leadership action cycle (GLAC) presented here is designed to be useful in more comprehensively explaining leadership in a global context. Self-confidence is a general sense about one's ability to accomplish what needs to be accomplished, in the face of ambiguity and complexity of global environments. Emotional maturity is a conglomerate of characteristics indicating that a person is well balanced in a number of psychological and behavioral dimensions, and demonstrating temperance. More emotional maturity tends to increase resilience and conscientiousness.
