The first edition is scheduled for release in January 2010.

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Scope and Purpose:

This Journal is about and for leaders, not managers. HR personnel and trainers responsible for top executive development typically need to scan at least 40 or 50 journals across several disciplines in order to keep current about what is useful when training leaders to be better global decision makers. But too often the literature lacks clarity. In books, journals and periodicals the terms management and leadership are frequently used interchangeably, when, in fact, they are not the same.

Unlike managers embedded in a present, team-oriented environment, leaders must focus on the need to define their organization’s future, a future in which they have no experience. The effective global leader embodies all the qualities of the highest performing manager, but in addition, requires a skill set distinguished by the ability to understand the complexities of planning, conducting, and growing businesses within and across borders in a radically different global environment than existed just a decade ago.

The Journal will focus on the possibilities suggested by advances in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology, behavioral finance and the psychology of judgment and decision-making to provide leaders with methods and information to reduce errors of judgment when engaged in enterprise-wide decision making.

The professional literature on leadership continues to be rather primitive with regard to the study of how cognitive processes work when top leaders come face-to-face with a complexity of products, environments and cultures. Most research on decision making assumes the decision-making process is based on what a leader knows, but the decision is not any less risk averse based on the known, it is the unknown, that contains risk. Enterprise-wide decision making is an exercise in uncertainty and complexity. How does a leader plan decisions around the unknown, the unexpected? This is how the Journal will help leaders become better decision makers, guiding their organizations through often murky waters to emerge in a stronger global position.