Global Leadership 1 GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 7 MBA6026 The Global Leader Unit 1 Assignment 1 Global Leadership Agenda and Theory Deidre Connor Professor Michael McGivern Global Leadership Agenda and Theory Howard Gardener Five Minds of Future Book reveals the objectives that leaders globally ought to follow. These objectives are, a synthesizing mind, stating that leaders should have the ability to decode ideas from different disciplines and process the information as a whole and in a way that they can convey it to other people. Secondly, is the disciplinary mind, meaning a leader should be able to master all the schools of thought. For example, professional crafts, mathematics, history and science. On the other hand is the creative mind. A leader should be able to identify problems, solve them amicably and bring up strategies to prevent them from happening in the future. In the model also, he included the ethical mind which stated that a leader should always be able to fulfill what is expected of them both as citizens and employees. Finally, he included the respectful mind. Meaning that one had to differentiate between human groups and human beings. It is evident that Gardener had several means through which he derived his model. However, it is not in every organization that you will find this model being emphasized. Most global leaders nowadays use their strategies to ensure that they have everything under control within the organization. However, it would be of great importance if they took the leadership role more seriously. Leaders, however, have to forecast in the future. This will enable them to know what to change, maintain and mend in their strategies. For example, nowadays most organizations are working on ensuring that they integrate Supply chain management in the organization. However, after integration of these strategies, they have no more plans. In organizations like Coca Cola where they have already integrated the Supply chain systems, the leaders are now focusing on other means that would enable them to retain their market base, ensure that there is employee involvement and also ensure that their continuous development of their strategies. To ensure this, the leaders are looking for other ways like the development of their managerial strategies. This has not been easy for most leaders globally to implement. That is because they have to do more than expected in these strategies. (Gardner) For example, ensuring that they have better strategies for time management, have better and specific priorities, improved decision-making strategies, strategic thinking amongst others. In short, they have to ensure that there are more effective means to work. Meaning that they get the jobs done on time, production of high-end quality products and services thus ensuring that the organiza ...