Purpose: Businesses operate in a world facing a range of urgent global issues (UGIs). Unless an effective response is made in the near future, extremely damaging consequences are forecast. The purpose of this paper is to offer assistance to business…

The authors organised a successful international conference in April 2008 on global leadership where over 50 delegates assisted them to hone the ideas presented in this paper., This paper focuses on businesses and the leaders who guide them. These businesses…