ABSTRACT
Global leaders, unlike domestic leaders, address people worldwide. Kets de Vries and Mead developed a list of leadership qualities that included: envisioning, strong operational codes, environmental sense making, ability to instill values, inspiring, empowering, building and maintaining organizational networks, interpersonal skills, pattern recognition and cognitive complexity, and hardiness. This chapter presents the empirical global leadership research in two ways. First, it provides a time-based list so that one can understand how the field grew. Second, the research is categorized and explained in greater detail according to six main research approaches in global leadership—competency studies, women global leaders, job analysis, cognition, behavior, and typological theory. Allan Bird conducted a review of the global leadership and expatriate literature to develop a comprehensive delineation of the content domain of the intercultural competence required for effective global leadership. The domain consists of perception management, relationship management, and self-management. The Pyramid Model identifies the key competencies of global managers.
