ABSTRACT
Media interest in leadership and leaders in Asia continues apace and unabated. Leadership continues to be an on-going focus of scholarship, despite its contested definitions, meanings and nature. As a result of this work, the author's hope to move beyond the overly dominant and ethnocentric Western leadership literature and explore Asian leadership based on differing cultural foundations. Asian examples would include Stan Shih, Acer, Li Ka-Shing, Cheung Kong Holdings, Kuok Robert Hock Nien, Kuok Group and Terry Gou, Foxxcon. While individual leaders matter, leadership matters more because it turns individual abilities into organizational capabilities. For instance, there are directly opposite ideas about leadership being more or less visible, assertive and consultative. Then, there is the issue of the transplantation of 'indigenous' leadership, such as Asian leaders in the West or non-Asian leaders in Asia, such as Carlos Ghosn at Nissan. Asian leadership is concerned with relationships that exist between persons in a social situation.
