Leadership From A Global Perspective

Abstract

Leaders are promoters of change and challengers of the norm by encouraging creativity and risk taking.  Leaders concentrate on goals, objectives, mission, and vision.  They concern themselves with doing the ethical or right thing.  Corporations have grown into multinational firms due to trust, loyalty and support of the components they serve.  Businesses are more global today.  These firms are challenged with the task of maintaining trust and balancing the numerous, often competing needs of their stakeholders.  Needs include greater profits, lower price for consumers, higher wages for employees, less waste and pollution, and growing demands for ethical and moral behavior.  Technology has made many actions crystal clear as to what standards should be followed.  However, today managers need to know how to be global managers.  This is a must in order for large corporations to effectively function and succeed in the global market.  What does a global manager need to know to lead responsibly?  This paper addresses corporate sustainability leadership within the global compact.