Mindfulness: Nurturing global mindset and global leadership

Abstract

In the contemporary globalized world, firms span across geographic, socio-cultural and economic boundaries and deal with the resultant diversity and complexity. Such firms look for developing a ‘global mindset’ in their leaders and to enhance their competencies as a global leader. In this paper we attempt to explore global leadership and global mindset from the perspective of ‘mindfulness’ Taking a task analytic approach of global leadership, we attempt to elaborate on how mindfulness fosters the development of global mindset, and in turn, how global mindset enhances competencies of global leaders.