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Leadership Challenges: Sustainability, Skills and Inclusivity in Industry 5.0 book cover

1st Edition

Leadership Challenges Sustainability, Skills and Inclusivity in Industry 5.0

Edited By Rafał Śliwiński Copyright 2026
290 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the multifaceted challenges facing business leaders in the third decade of the 21st century, as they navigate an increasingly complex, volatile, and interconnected global environment. It begins by situating leadership transformation within the broader context of megatrends such as demographic shifts, technological acceleration, geopolitical turbulence, and the growing... Read more

I. Facing the New Leadership Imperatives: Introduction to Sustainability, Skills, and Inclusivity in Industry 5.0

Rafał Śliwiński

 

II. Challenges for business leaders

 

1. Extreme Leadership Models and Organisational Effectiveness: The Machiavellian and Loyola Models

Rafał Śliwiński

 

2. External Experts as Instant Leaders

Grzegorz Sobiecki and Beata Skowron-Mielnik

 

3. The role of generational diversity in shaping motivational drivers within the corporate workforce. Insights from Kuehne + Nagel

Monika Guzek, Alicja Hadryś, and Justyna Jankowiak

 

4. Female Business Leadership and Sustainability. The case of Womenomics in Japan

Sebastian Bobowski and Bogusława Drelich-Skulska

 

5. Inclusive Leadership: Integrating Gender Diversity for Organizational Success

Alicja Hadryś

 

6. The Leader’s Brand and Its Organizational Influence in the Social Media Era

Filip Szymczak and Rafał Śliwiński

 

7. Preparing Leaders for the Future: Strategic Foresight in Leadership Coaching

Tomasz Grzegorczyk

 

8. Leadership in the digitalized era – the challenges of business model innovation and overcoming strategies

Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič, Piotr Wójcik, and Anna Morgan-Thomas

 

9. How Sustainable Conduct and Companies’ Moral Values Shape Companies’ Reactions to War and Sanctions?

Beata Stępień, Szymon Truskolaski, and Michał Staszków

 

III. Leaders' skills

 

10. Leader 5.0 and the engineering of strategic communication: linguistic design and influence among Gold-Collar professionals

Anna Modrzewska and Rafał Śliwiński

 

11. Leading through the Technological Revolution 5.0: An overview of emerging trends and practical managerial implications

Anna Modrzewska and Rafał Śliwiński

 

12. The Relational Effectiveness Model of the Leader’s Brand

Filip Szymczak and Rafał Śliwiński

 

IV. Entrepreneurial leadership

 

13. Leadership for sustainable transition. The case of Tony's Chocolonely – a game changer in chocolate industry

Magdalena Śliwińska

 

14. The Role of International Corporations in the Sustainable Transformation of the Global Economy

Marian Gorynia, Magdalena Śliwińska

 

V. Anticipating 2035: The Future Trajectory of Leadership in a Changing World

Rafał Śliwiński

Biography

Rafał Śliwiński is Associate Professor in the Department of International Management at the Institute of World Economy, Poznań University of Business and Economics, Poland. His academic work focuses on strategic management, competitiveness, leadership, and international business, with particular emphasis on organizational adaptation in the face of geopolitical, technological, environmental, and demographic transformations. He has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics such as international competitiveness, fast-growing firms, leadership, and new business models. He serves as a reviewer for several international academic journals and is actively involved in interdisciplinary research projects addressing the challenges of digital transformation and inclusive leadership in the global economy.

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