Thursday, November 4, 2010
Global Village
Bennis says "Global leadership challenges include how to manage the inevitable cross-cultural differences that surface as employees with different cultural values and native tongues attempt to work closely together." Future leaders will need to know how to mesh with different cultures. Teaching 21st century skills like collaboration, communication, and relationship building will help the cause.
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Hello Jason!!!
Much of our readings focus on leaders preparing themselves and their companies for globalization. As Bennis states, the differences across cultures are inevitable. I believe the best way to mesh with others from other cultures is to respect and honor our differences. And as we learned in the reading of Transnational Leadership, we must continously work on "meaning".
Jason, I agree. I think that equally as important is respect. When you are dealing with different cultures and traditions respect is a huge benefactor to creating that mesh.
Kesha hit it on the head when she said respecting and honoring the differences in people. We may not like what certain groups of people may do, but respecting that group of people is still important in this process.
A good example are Muslims. I may not like the fact that some Muslims chose to have anti-American views towards us, but as a leader I will still respect them because I know that not every Muslim shares this view.
How very true Jason. The 21st century skills you mentioned are vital to success of any organization.
Sometimes we are quite colloquial when it comes to espousing what we believe about other cultures. To go deeper in our understanding and acceptance is going to be the big challenge of leadership in this global workplace.
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