Abstract
The LEAD– Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora, begun 2007. It is a team of committed researchers with diversity in membership, aspiration, scholarship and background. The researchers are from Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya; Africa Diaspora: Trinidad, US, Canada, West Indies and Barbados. The team has achievements in research and publications; virtual interaction and infrequent physical meetings. This paper examines the factors behind these achievements namely task drive, focus, composition, individual motivation and above all leadership. The paper highlights the beginnings of LEAD team, growth, leadership, academic works, challenges and future directions.
Highlights
Globalization in the business world, combined with technological developments, has resulted in a proliferation of multi-country, virtual teams (Han & Beyerlein, 2016), and this phenomenon has been increasing, over the past decade (Schille & Mandviwalla, 2014)
The LEAD project began as an individual effort, but it has evolved into a great team
This resulted in a small group of participants who recruited other researchers from their colleagues, essentially the equivalent of a snowball sampling technique
Summary
Globalization in the business world, combined with technological developments, has resulted in a proliferation of multi-country, virtual teams (Han & Beyerlein, 2016), and this phenomenon has been increasing, over the past decade (Schille & Mandviwalla, 2014). This has happened in academia as elsewhere. The Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the African Diaspora (LEAD) project is an example of a multi-country virtual team academic project It involves collaborators from seven African, three Caribbean, and three North American countries. We would add the use of technology as a critical component
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