Adapting to, creating, and managing change has become an unavoidable and even central part in today's organizations ( Griffin, Neal, & Parker, 2007 ). At the external level, organizations are constantly seeking opportunities to identify and anticipate clients' needs, switch or expand into new...

Our passion for global management has remained steadfast. In this volume, questions about global mindset, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and leadership for global virtual teams at the time of financial crisis have been asked and some answers given.

This chapter discusses proactive leadership by elaborating the meaning of leaders' proactivity, the required competencies of proactive leadership, and the potentially different evaluations of leaders' proactivity by different observers, including leaders themselves, their supervisors, peers, and...