Part One: Contexts for Leadership Development

This part of the book is about contexts for leadership development. Any development process will take place in layers of context. For instance, it may be that the process of leadership development is created in a large global company, which provides an organisational context. And the context may be a particular sector such as business or the public sector. It may be a particular country or a whole geographical region. Our overriding point is that leading occurs within nested contexts and that therefore leadership development needs to accommodate these. However, especially in texts from the United States, there is a tendency to write generally about leadership as though there is some universal process which merely requires some simple modification to suit the organisation or the social setting or anything else that is the context for development. In this part, therefore, we have shown the implications of working in particular contexts.