How Strange Can You Be In Corporate America And Still Keep Your Job?
How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very...
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Authentic Leadership for Progress, Peace, and Prosperity
This article was originally posted on ILA Intersections. I am keenly interested in understanding how leaders progress their business agendas as well as the global agenda in times of significant geopolitical shifts. I attended the International Leadership Association's...
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Learning To Lead With Global Competence
This article was originally published on Emerald Group Publishing, you can find it here. Dr Mark Mendenhall takes a moment to talk about the changing role of the business manager on the international stage and what leadership means in an era of increasing...
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The Danger of Familiarity to Continuous Learning
Becoming effective in a diverse world is dependent on how much, how accurate and how quickly we learn about the unfamiliar. Diversity, by definition, means there is divergence in our beliefs, habits, values, and perspectives. To be effective in an environment where...
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Things to Consider as a Family When Relocating to a Foreign Country
When you get the call to work in a foreign country, you need to consider more than just the job opportunity and your own ability to manage the transition (which can be very challenging without any other issues involved). If you have a family, the transition will be...
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What’s the Status of Women Senior Leaders in Business Globally?
Diversity is a hot topic and a major challenge in many corporations. More women are entering the workforce around the world, but let’s take a closer look at how senior women are faring in business. Women Board Members More women directors are sitting on corporate...
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Diversity or Intercultural Competence – Are They Really Different?
The short answer is “No.” And the long answer is, too, but both areas require the same competencies. What is Diversity Diversity normally refers to differences in gender, religion, generation, race, ethnic group, and so on. The term first gained attention in Silicon...
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Developing a Global Mindset
One of the most important skills global managers can possess is the ability to not generalize about an entire group of people, especially if one’s experience with the few people has resulted in negative outcomes. Excellent global managers have nuanced and complex...
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4 Things Repatriates Can Teach You
When people take the time to ask repatriates about their international assignments, the repatriate knowledge gained during their experience abroad is often a surprise. There is enormous transformational potential in an expatriate experience -- for many people, it is...
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What Makes a Great Global Leadership Program?
There’s been an explosion of global leadership programs in organizations and universities - but how can you tell if they are really effective? A quick internet search yields dozens of programs, so here’s what to look for. Make sure programs are not existing programs...
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Curiosity is Key to Global Leadership
Sometimes I am asked, “of all the skills associated with global leadership, which one is the most important?” When I answer this question, I do so by first giving a caveat: “Research studies, to date, don’t give a definitive answer to that question yet,” but, some...
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How Culture Affects International Negotiations
Gary Oddou discusses how culture affects international negotiations and what you can do to improve your intercultural relationships. Learn how to measure your intercultural relationships and understanding of diversity by joining our assessment training July 21st-22nd...
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The Repatriate Knowledge Your Organization Is Missing
When people take the time to ask repatriates about their international assignments, the repatriate knowledge gained during their experience abroad is often a surprise. There is enormous transformational potential in an expatriate experience -- for many people, it is...
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How Can HR Departments Use Assessments for Workplace Challenges?
Companies that do business internationally or have diverse workforces face a number of challenges. Typical challenges organizations face in this diverse world include: Difficulties training individuals to be able to adapt to foreign people and their customs and...
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What Can Repatriates Teach Us?
Thousands of repatriates have a vast amount of valuable global knowledge that few companies make any attempt to systematically harvest lessons from. Instead of treating them like a valuable competitive advantage, these repatriates global knowledge is often ignored and...
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What Role Does Culture Play In International Business?
Picture these scenarios that involve culture in international business: Scenario 1: New Importing Business You’re thinking about importing slippers from China and selling them in the U.S. You’ve seen various types online through Alibaba and other sites and are trying...
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What Global Challenges Do Universities Face Today?
Universities face a raft of global challenges today that relate to intercultural competence. Unprepared for Global Workplaces Many campuses have an institutional learning objective focused on preparing students for a global world that has to be assessed for...
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How Can MBA Students be Effective in Commerce?
Virtually every business, regardless of its size, product or service focus is affected by global trends. In the midst of such activity, people of different cultures, ethnic origins, and languages, are constantly interacting. A project team for developing the next...
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How To Improve Your Global Mobility to Become a Corporate Expatriate Leader
Global mobility has undergone dramatic changes over the past decade, with several trends driving the transformation. Among these are two in particular: strategic talent management that shapes the use of expatriate assignments for development; data analytics that...
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Finding Global Leadership Potential & Making It Stronger
In partnership with Aperian Global, Allan Bird and Mark Mendenhall hosted the "Finding Global Leadership Potential & Making It Strong" webinar on November 10th, 2016. You can watch it anytime below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qlhPlU5wI
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What is Leadership?
At the 2013 Global Leadership Summit, hosted by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University asked Mark Mendenhall to answer the question "what is leadership?" Watch for the answer and how to become a leader in your field:...
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