Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging Trends

The book begins with a section delving into foresight analysis, strategic foresight, and scenario planning. It then examines the pressing contexts and most wicked problems facing future leaders ranging from population growth and urbanization to climate change and resource competition. How can leaders create common cause and meet these issues with an eye toward peace, sustainability, and social justice? The book concludes with a series of unique ways of viewing the critical challenges facing leaders and suggests how skillsets and capacities needed to work on solutions to these challenges might be developed.Leadership 2050 helps us think at once about the demands our world is likely to face in the next thirty-five years and the leadership our communities and organizations will need to both survive those challenges and thrive.

Matthew Sowcik - Wilkes University, USA
Anthony C. Andenoro - Association of Leadership Educators, USA
Mindy McNutt - Wright State University, USA
Susan Elaine Murphy - The University of Edinburgh, UK