ABSTRACT
Finding leaders and developing leadership requires moving beyond general maxims (e.g. be authentic, have emotional intelligence) into deeper insights into the context of leadership. This book offers such deep and rich insights about leadership within the context of three Asian economic settings: China, Korea and Japan. These three economic powerhouses shape much of today and tomorrow’s world economics and offer unique insights on leadership. Leaders are strategists who set direction, executors who get things done, talent managers who manage today’s talent, human capital developers who empower and invest in future talent, and personally proficient by their individual attributes. These five dimensions of the leadership ‘code’ remain stable, but vary by context. The insights from leadership in China, Japan and Korea are rooted in deep cultural qualitative insights and rich quantitative data. They recognize cultural biases, but offer detailed cases and empirical evidence on leadership trends.
