A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But ...

In December 2019, the global health crisis caused by Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) began in China, catching world unawares and unprepared [1].

Leadership has always attracted human beings. In this thesis we identify the traditional top-down single leadership as a powerful norm, influencing every leader. With this assumption in mind we have chosen to conduct a literature review where we examine the concept of shared leadership on two levels in order to evaluate the possibilities for the concept to become a new leadership norm. First, w...