Modern Transformational Leadership is a timely and interdisciplinary volume that explores how leaders across sectors and cultures are redefining influence, legitimacy, and resilience in an era marked by crisis, complexity, and moral urgency. Blending theory with practice, the book brings together scholars, practitioners, and change-makers to examine leadership not as a static role, but as a dynamic force for ethical transformation and institutional renewal.
Based on a science-practitioner framework, the book challenges foundational theories and proposes new models for ethical, inclusive, and adaptive leadership. Today, leadership must be intercultural, interdisciplinary, and ethically grounded. This volume affirms that transformational leadership is a relational and reflective practice shaped by power, purpose, and context, not merely a role.
Providing critical insights for scholars, researchers, managers, professionals, and educators, this book covers topics ranging from strategic decision-making and emotional intelligence to resistance, recognition, and symbolic inclusion.
Part I: Modern Transformational Leadership in Practice- Reframing Power,
Identity, Positive Change and Political Skill in Contemporary Context.-
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1. Relational Statesmanship: Transformational Leadership and
Breakthrough Performance Reimagined From Corporate Suites to Political
Streets.
Chapter
2. The Age of Reimagined Power: Transformational
Leadership, Passion, Influence, Growth and Inclusion Through the Lens of the
Lion and the Jewel - A New Leadership Blueprint.
Chapter
3. Long Term Impact
of Emotional, Social and Cognitive Intelligence Competencies and GMAT on
Career and Life Satisfaction and Career Success (A New Look at Modern
Transformational Leadership).
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4. Behavioral Intelligence for Modern
Transformational Leadership: Emotion, Personality, and Culture at Work.-
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5. Digital Transformational Leadership and the Management of
Culturally Diverse Teams.- Part II: Modern Transformational Leader, Human
Resources, Interpersonal Influence and Political Skill Across Global
Business Contexts, Governance, and Team Dynamics.
Chapter
6. Transforming HR
Through Integrated Systems: Practical Lessons From HRIS Implementation in
Poland and Austria.
Chapter
7. Quality of Relationships That Promote
Effectiveness, Change and Renewal as Measured by the Relational Climate
Survey A Modern Transformational Leadership Model?.
Chapter
8.
Generational Influence, Intergenerational Equity, and Modern Transformational
Leadership: Designing Inclusive Knowledge Systems in Industrial Workplaces.-
Chapter
9. From Eden to Influence: Adam and Eves Journey Through
Entrepreneurial Stress Toward Transformational Leadership of Foreign African
Entrepreneurs.- Part III: The Entangled Transformational Leadership Triangle
of Identity, Inclusion, and Group Loyalty.
Chapter
10. Awakening the Future:
Environmental Awareness and Leadership Potential Among College Students in
China.
Chapter
11. The Power of Personal Attractiveness in Diverse
Organizations: Transformational Leadership and the Politics of Presence.-
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12. Fatalism, Suicide, and Oppression: Power, Exclusion, and the
Unraveling of Transformational Leadership.- Part IV: Politics in Crisis:
Power, Sovereignty, and Transformational Leadership in a Polarized World.-
Chapter
13. The Road to Disinformation Nation: Populism, Truth Wars, and the
Crisis of Transformational Leadership and Business Culture in the Post-Truth
Era.- Part V: Strategic Tranformational Leadership and Identity in
Organizational and Global Business Transitions.
Chapter
14. Groupthink and
Diversity Management: Transformational Leadership in the Face of
Technological Challenges and Opportunities.
Chapter
15. Followership:
Commitment, Loyalty, and Satisfaction of Followers of Transformational
Leaders.
Chapter
16. Author Branding in the Digital Publishing Landscape:
Transformational Leadership, Strategies and Implications.
Chapter
17.
Regenerative Business and Transformational Leadership Agency: Power,
Dialectics, and the Evolution of Ecosystems.
Chapter
18. EI Competencies as
a Related but Different Characteristic Than Intelligence (Yet Intertwined
Foundations of Modern Transformational Leadership).
Chapter
19. Emotional
Catalysts: Transforming Feelings Into Creative Power in Human-AI
Co-Creativity.
Chapter
20. Designing and Executing Quantitative Research for
Modern Leadership and Organizational Studies: A Pragmatic Framework for Rigor
and Impact.
Adebowale Akande is internationally known as a leading scholar in cross-cultural research, management, and globalism. His work, in collaboration with distinguished experts like Bernard M. Bass, Susan T. Fiske, Peter B. Smith, Mark Peterson, David Watkins, Douglas Kellner, Peter Glick, Richard Boyatzis, Albert Bandura, Phil Zimbardo, CGM Bakare, James Georgas, David M. Buss, Amos Alao, Shalom H. Schwartz, Julius Akinboye, Burrhus F. Skinner, Robert House, and others, investigates the complexities of effective leadership, interpersonal work dynamics, and the varied cultural values that shape contemporary societies. Akande's extensive research ranges from analyzing learning patterns to probing the cultural foundations of leadership expectations and the crucial alignment of CEO behaviors with these expectations for maximum leadership effectiveness. His insights also encompass understanding social perceptions and biases, scrutinizing the formation of stereotypes and prejudices, and the impact of social dynamics, such as cooperation, competition, politics, and power structures, on reinforcing or counteracting these biases.
He is a foundational member of the 2004 [ GLOBE] study, the most extensive and renowned study of its kind within the social sciences. Akande has been honored with numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992, the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew Award from the University of Michigan in 1996. Additionally, he has received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 2008, and the IAGT Award in 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize in 2005 for his research on ambivalent sexism and global family relations. Renowned for popularizing cross-cultural studies, he currently holds the position of international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and serves as a guest professor at several Canadian universities in British Columbia, Canada.
