Perspectives on Global Leadership and the COVID19-Crisis. Scholarly Perspectives

The Olympics of Everything has been cancelled, disrupted or even closed. At the same time, for a large group of managers, work life goes on under conditions close to business as usual: The global leaders. Now, however, these everyday working conditions of geographical dispersion, VUCA-environment and paradox coping have become common property of managers in general during the crisis. Even managers of small, local businesses are now experiencing and exercising “extreme leadership” – a term that has been used to characterize the job role of global leaders (Osland, Bird & Oddou, 2012, p. 107). While the interconnectedness of countries, businesses and people is not new per se, this point has been taken home and to the extreme in a new way and include new groups. This exemplifies that global leadership research and practical knowledge of global leadership is also relevant for non-global groups of businesses, managers and employees – in particular in times of crisis, but also more generally in times of “normal.”