When the Box Finally Arrives: Launching The Sage Works Guide to Global Leadership

Earlier this week, a long-awaited box landed on my doorstep: the first author copies of The Sage Works Guide to Global Leadership, a student-focused book about navigating real-world global leadership in complex systems. It was a project that began years ago as a tangle of research notes about how leaders really navigate complex, global systems.

I happened to be home with my family when the package arrived, so we unboxed it together. There’s something grounding about sharing that kind of moment. After months of late‑night writing and second‑guessing entire chapters, you finally hold the finished product in your hands.

Why I Wrote Guide to Global Leadership

This book grew out of noticing how real leadership often plays out in the friction between ideals and messy realities: red tape, crisis, geopolitics, regulations, talent strategy, customer experience, innovation, and the everyday constraints of organizational life. It’s easy to romanticize leadership, but global leadership rarely unfolds in a straight line.

What Guide to Global Leadership Tries to Do

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Across its chapters, Guide to Global Leadership interweaves followership, ethics, cross‑cultural communication, sustainability, and crisis management in government, nonprofits, or private enterprise. I've packed in dozens of short examples and full case studies, including some of my Sage Business Cases that have been, or are about to be, published separately.

My goal was to write something realistic and useful, a resource for students, emerging professors, and practitioners who want to understand what global leadership actually feels and looks like across contexts.

I’m deeply grateful to the editors at Sage and to the students, colleagues, and practitioners whose insights shaped this journey. And mostly, I’m just thankful — because sometimes the most meaningful milestones arrive quietly, in a cardboard box on your front step.

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