A trans-cultural leadership paradigm

This chapter explores traditional views on leadership with a new leadership paradigm - the trans-cultural leadership paradigm. The trans-cultural leadership paradigm stipulates that leaders need to develop and use a trans-cultural competency to guide their organizations and teams, effectuate change, and enact leadership as learning. The phenomenon of leadership has long been the focus of academic and managerial attention. A professional needs to master his or her materials and, at the same time, be passionately at one with the mission of the whole organization. The trans-cultural competence is a leader’s propensity to reconcile dilemmas. It transcends a single culture and it represents the real essence of leadership. Leaders who operate in an international world are continuously dealing with dilemmas - defined as a choice between two options, both of which are attractive but appear to be mutually exclusive - that they need to reconcile on a higher level.