Modern Transformational Leadership - Applications, Challenges, and Best Practices

Modern Transformational Leadership is a timely and interdisciplinary volume that explores how leaders across sectors and cultures are redefining influence, legitimacy, and resilience in an era marked by crisis, complexity, and moral urgency. Blending theory with practice, the book brings together scholars, practitioners, and change-makers to examine leadership not as a static role, but as a dynamic force for ethical transformation and institutional renewal.
Based on a science-practitioner framework, the book challenges foundational theories and proposes new models for ethical, inclusive, and adaptive leadership. Today, leadership must be intercultural, interdisciplinary, and ethically grounded. This volume affirms that transformational leadership is a relational and reflective practice shaped by power, purpose, and context, not merely a role.
Providing critical insights for scholars, researchers, managers, professionals, and educators, this book covers topics ranging from strategic decision-making and emotional intelligence to resistance, recognition, and symbolic inclusion.

List of contents

Part I: Modern Transformational Leadership in Practice- Reframing Power, Identity, Positive Change and Political Skill in Contemporary Context.- Chapter 1. Relational Statesmanship: Transformational Leadership and Breakthrough Performance Reimagined From Corporate Suites to Political Streets.- Chapter 2. The Age of Reimagined Power: Transformational Leadership, Passion, Influence, Growth and Inclusion Through the Lens of the Lion and the Jewel - A New Leadership Blueprint.- Chapter 3. Long Term Impact of Emotional, Social and Cognitive Intelligence Competencies and GMAT on Career and Life Satisfaction and Career Success (A New Look at Modern Transformational Leadership).- Chapter 4. Behavioral Intelligence for Modern Transformational Leadership: Emotion, Personality, and Culture at Work.- Chapter 5. Digital Transformational Leadership and the Management of Culturally Diverse Teams.- Part II: Modern Transformational Leader, Human Resources, Interpersonal Influence and Political Skill Across Global Business Contexts, Governance, and Team Dynamics.- Chapter 6. Transforming HR Through Integrated Systems: Practical Lessons From HRIS Implementation in Poland and Austria.- Chapter 7. Quality of Relationships That Promote Effectiveness, Change and Renewal as Measured by the Relational Climate Survey A Modern Transformational Leadership Model?.- Chapter 8. Generational Influence, Intergenerational Equity, and Modern Transformational Leadership: Designing Inclusive Knowledge Systems in Industrial Workplaces.- Chapter 9. From Eden to Influence: Adam and Eve s Journey Through Entrepreneurial Stress Toward Transformational Leadership of Foreign African Entrepreneurs.- Part III: The Entangled Transformational Leadership Triangle of Identity, Inclusion, and Group Loyalty.- Chapter 10. Awakening the Future: Environmental Awareness and Leadership Potential Among College Students in China.- Chapter 11. The Power of Personal Attractiveness in Diverse Organizations: Transformational Leadership and the Politics of Presence.- Chapter 12. Fatalism, Suicide, and Oppression: Power, Exclusion, and the Unraveling of Transformational Leadership.- Part IV: Politics in Crisis: Power, Sovereignty, and Transformational Leadership in a Polarized World.- Chapter 13. The Road to Disinformation Nation: Populism, Truth Wars, and the Crisis of Transformational Leadership and Business Culture in the Post-Truth Era.- Part V: Strategic Tranformational Leadership and Identity in Organizational and Global Business Transitions.- Chapter 14. Groupthink and Diversity Management: Transformational Leadership in the Face of Technological Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 15. Followership: Commitment, Loyalty, and Satisfaction of Followers of Transformational Leaders.- Chapter 16. Author Branding in the Digital Publishing Landscape: Transformational Leadership, Strategies and Implications.- Chapter 17. Regenerative Business and Transformational Leadership Agency: Power, Dialectics, and the Evolution of Ecosystems.- Chapter 18. EI Competencies as a Related but Different Characteristic Than Intelligence (Yet Intertwined Foundations of Modern Transformational Leadership).- Chapter 19. Emotional Catalysts: Transforming Feelings Into Creative Power in Human-AI Co-Creativity.- Chapter 20. Designing and Executing Quantitative Research for Modern Leadership and Organizational Studies: A Pragmatic Framework for Rigor and Impact.

About the author

Adebowale Akande is internationally known as a leading scholar in cross-cultural research, management, and globalism. His work, in collaboration with distinguished experts like Bernard M. Bass, Susan T. Fiske, Peter B. Smith, Mark Peterson, David Watkins, Douglas Kellner, Peter Glick, Richard Boyatzis, Albert Bandura, Phil Zimbardo, CGM Bakare, James Georgas, David M. Buss, Amos Alao, Shalom H. Schwartz, Julius Akinboye, Burrhus F. Skinner, Robert House, and others, investigates the complexities of effective leadership, interpersonal work dynamics, and the varied cultural values that shape contemporary societies. Akande's extensive research ranges from analyzing learning patterns to probing the cultural foundations of leadership expectations and the crucial alignment of CEO behaviors with these expectations for maximum leadership effectiveness. His insights also encompass understanding social perceptions and biases, scrutinizing the formation of stereotypes and prejudices, and the impact of social dynamics, such as cooperation, competition, politics, and power structures, on reinforcing or counteracting these biases.
He is a foundational member of the 2004 [GLOBE] study, the most extensive and renowned study of its kind within the social sciences. Akande has been honored with numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992, the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew Award from the University of Michigan in 1996. Additionally, he has received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 2008, and the IAGT Award in 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize in 2005 for his research on ambivalent sexism and global family relations. Renowned for popularizing cross-cultural studies, he currently holds the position of international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and serves as a guest professor at several Canadian universities in British Columbia, Canada.

Summary

Modern Transformational Leadership is a timely and interdisciplinary volume that explores how leaders across sectors and cultures are redefining influence, legitimacy, and resilience in an era marked by crisis, complexity, and moral urgency. Blending theory with practice, the book brings together scholars, practitioners, and change-makers to examine leadership not as a static role, but as a dynamic force for ethical transformation and institutional renewal.
Based on a science-practitioner framework, the book challenges foundational theories and proposes new models for ethical, inclusive, and adaptive leadership. Today, leadership must be intercultural, interdisciplinary, and ethically grounded. This volume affirms that transformational leadership is a relational and reflective practice shaped by power, purpose, and context, not merely a role.
Providing critical insights for scholars, researchers, managers, professionals, and educators, this book covers topics ranging from strategic decision-making and emotional intelligence to resistance, recognition, and symbolic inclusion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Adebowale Akande (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.02.2026
• EAN: 9783032125354
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3212535-4
• Illustrations: Approx. 400 p.
• Series: Diversity and Inclusion Research
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Pädagogik, Management und Managementtechniken, Personalmanagement, HRM, Internationale Wirtschaft, Internationales Management, optimieren, Social Movements, Organization, Organisationstheorie und -verhalten, Identity Politics, Organizational change, transformational leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Cross-Cultural Management, Ethical Leadership, Management Education, Business Strategy and Leadership, Diversity Management and Women in Business, political polarization, Leadership Theory, global strategy, Inclusion and Diversity, Crisis Leadership, power and influence, Generational engagement, Digital teams