Preface / William H. Mobley -- Introduction : looking back and looking forward / Ming Li, Ying Wang, William H. Mobley -- What is leadership? / Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood -- Ethical leadership and workplace deviance : the role of moral disengagement / Yan Liu, Long W. 'Rico' Lam, Raymond Loi -- Understanding leaders' proactivity from a goal-process view and with multisource ratings / Chia-Huei Wu, Ying Wang, William H. Mobley -- Team leaders' emotional intelligence, personality, and empowering behavior : an investigation of their relations to team climate / Dong Liu, Chi-Sum Wong, Ping-Ping Fu -- The context of expert global leadership / Joyce S. Osland, Allan Bird, Gary Oddou -- "Some like it hot!" : interpreting and responding to diversity issues and initiatives : implications for global leaders / Susan C. Schneider, Patricia Garcia-Prieto Chevalier, Veronique Tran -- Development of the cultural intelligence assessment / David C. Thomas, Günter Stahl, Elizabeth C. Ravlin, Steven Poelmans, Andre Pekerti, Martha Maznevski, Mila B. Lazarova, Efrat Elron, Bjørn Z. Ekelund, Jean-Luc Cerdin, Richard Brislin, Zeynep Aycan, Kevin Au -- Personalizing global leader development @ Infosys / David V. Day, Matthew F. Barney -- A cross-cultural perspective on leadership assessment : comparing 360-degree feedback results from around the world / Daniel R. Denison, Lindsey M. Kotrba, Nathalie Castaño -- Similarities and differences in managerial judgment around the world / Max Choi, Alan Howard, Nina Krig -- Leadership essentials to attract, engage, and retain global human talent / Kyle Lundby, Wayne C. Lee, William H. Macey -- Building the global competence of Asian leaders / Hora Widjaja Tjitra, Mano Ramakrishnan, Hana Panggabean -- Developing a global mindset for leaders : the case of the Canadian context / Catherine T. Kwantes, Greg A. Chung-Yan -- Understanding leadership in China : leadership profiles of state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations, and major economic trading partners / Jarrett H. Shalhoop, Michael R. Sanger -- Contemporary leadership approaches in Chinese business / Haina Zhang, Malcolm H. Cone, André M. Everett, Graham Elkin -- Developing global roles for Chinese leadership : an ASD theory of organizational change / Zhongming Wang -- Conclusion : reconnecting with the foundations to build global leadership capability / Ying Wang, Ming Li, William H. Mobley.

Volume 7 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and individual variables and processes associated effective international leadership is ever more important. This Volume, drawing on authors from many different cultures and contexts, contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner perspectives in pursuing this deeper understanding.