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Chapter 6 **Knowledge in Neuroscience Can Help Us Avoid Underperforming Leaders 97** Bertil Engelbert


Preface

tributing to the existing debate on leadership.

Despite the extensive academic and practitioner literature available on leadership, one can easily assume that practitioners are far from having a coherent understanding of what lead‐ ership is about. Leadership is increasingly interpreted and reviewed referring to composite global socio-economic and environmental opportunities and risks framed in relation to sus‐ tainable development. This book, when compared to other books on leadership, is expected to present a new understanding of the essential features of leadership and it varies from the wealth of literature in the following ways: firstly, this book attempts to include leaders at all management levels within an organization and across various sectors. Focusing on the fact that the actual leaders must move within the context of a dynamic system of global pres‐ sures and trends, this book also aims to provide experiences and reflections across a variety of sectors and organizational structures rather than focusing on one set of definitions (as is the case in current leadership sources). In doing so, this book is expected to provide the reader with a broader perspective about leadership. Finally, this book is expected to offer a new perspective addressing and inspiring actual leaders today and potential ones and con‐

> **Suleyman Davut Göker** 18 Mart University Çanakkale, Turkey

