by Gary Oddou | Dec 12, 2019 | Education, Global Skills
Exceptional people in our context are the best learners for several reasons. We’ll talk about one of them in this post: being slow to judge. This context is one where those around us represent different beliefs, values, customs, and perspectives. Our...
by Gary Oddou | Aug 23, 2019 | Global Skills
When Mark Mendenhall and I did our original research that formed the basis for the Global Competency Inventory and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, we found something very interesting. Our research indicated that individuals adapted to diversity better who were...
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...
