by Joyce Osland | Jul 4, 2019 | Leadership
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...
by Maureen Metcalf | Jun 20, 2019 | Conference, Education, Leadership
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...
by Mark Mendenhall | Jun 6, 2019 | Global Skills, Leadership
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...
by Gary Oddou | May 9, 2019 | Global Skills
If you’re Latino and work with Caucasians, do you have to adjust your behavior to be “included”? If you’re a German and work with Chinese, do you have to adjust your behavior to be effective? If you’re from the millennial generation, working primarily with baby...
by Gary Oddou | Apr 11, 2019 | Education, Global Skills
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...
