ABSTRACT
A quick tour of the internet provides some insight regarding the topic of this chapter-the assessment of global leadership competencies. In just 0.27 seconds Google references 503 million websites relating to leadership. Narrow the search to “global leadership” and it takes 0.16 seconds to identify 3.4 million sites. But key in “global leadership assessment,” and only 769,000 sites surface. This is a significant change since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2008. At that time, the respective numbers were: 170 million, 983,000, and 64. Some of this change may be attributable to the growth of the internet itself. But it is reasonable to also conclude that there is increasing interest in the subject of global leadership and significant growth in trying to assess global leadership competencies. Nevertheless, as we will discover as we proceed further, when it comes to assessing the competencies associated with effective global leadership, much work remains to be done.
