Introduction: what's wrong with leadership? improving leadership theory, research, and practice / Ronald E. Riggio -- Improving leadership methodology, assessment, and selection -- Leadership research methods : progressing back to process / Maureen E. McCusker, Roseanne J. Foti, and Elsheba K. Abraham -- Leadership and levels of analysis : clarifications and fixes for what's wrong / Francis J. Yammarino and Shelley D. Dionne -- Leadership assessment can be better : directions for selection and performance management / Manuel London -- The self-selection bias in leadership : understanding reluctant leaders / Olga Epitropaki -- Increasing the scope of leadership research -- Leadership and ethics : you can run but you cannot hide from the humanities / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Leadership is male-centric : gender issues in the study of leadership / Stefanie K. Johnson and Christina N. Lacerenza -- Are leadership theories western-centric? : transcending cognitive differences between the east and the west / Kenta Hino -- Leadership and the medium of time / Robert G. Lord -- Leaders are complex: expanding our understanding of leader identity / Stefanie P. Shaughnessy and Meredith R. Coats -- Turning the blind eye to destructive leadership : the forgotten destructive leaders / Birgit Schyns, Pedro Neves, Barbara Wisse, and Michael Knoll -- Improving leadership practice and expanding our thinking about leadership -- Leadership development starts earlier than we think : capturing the capacity of new leaders to address the leader talent shortage / Susan Elaine Murphy -- What is wrong with leadership development and what might be done with it? / David V. Day and Zhengguang Liu -- Solving the problem with leadership training : aligning contemporary behavior-based training with mindset conditioning / Alex Leung and Thomas Sy -- Critical leadership studies : exploring the dialectics of leadership / David L. Collinson -- Leadership for what? / Eric Guthey, Steve Kempster, and Robyn Remke