Global wisdom and the audacity of hope: designing global networks in a world of complexity / Nancy J. Adler -- Evaluating global leadership : does culture matter? / Dave Winsborough, Robert Hogan -- Leader-culture fit around the globe : investigating fit as layered within organizations and national cultures / Gary N. Burns ... [et al.] -- The complex self concept of the global leader / Jeffrey L. Herman, Stephen J. Zaccaro -- Measuring global leader intercultural competency : development and validation of the Global Competencies Inventory (GCI) / Michael Stevens ... [et al.] -- Global leaders in East and West : do all global leaders lead in the same way? / Anupam Agrawal, Caroline Rook -- The character of global leaders / Allen J. Morrison, J. Stewart Black -- Defining the "mindset" in global mindset : modeling the dualities of global leadership / Rachel Clapp-Smith, Gretchen Vogelgesang Lester -- Global strategic change : a synthesis of approaches / Henry W. Lane ... [et al.] -- Individual-level accelerators of global leadership development / Paula Caligiuri, Ibraiz Tarique -- Cultural marginality : identity issues in global leadership training / Janet Marie Bennett -- Short-term business travel and development of executive leader global mindset / Ann M. Johnston -- Global leadership development at Ford / Ernest Gundling, Tom Grant, David Everhart -- Developing responsible global leaders / Thomas Maak, Nicola M. Pless, Markéta Borecká -- Conclusion : future directions for advancing global leadership research / Joyce S. Osland, Ming Li, Ying Wang.

Volume 8 of Advances in global leadership includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. Amidst accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the variables associated with international leadership is ever more important.