THE GLOBAL ASPECT
In their book Developing Global Executives (Harvard Business School Press, 2002), Morgan W. McCall Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck, a former human resource executive and director of executive education at Harvard Business School and currently a leadership selection and development consultant based in Houston, describe their study of executives living and working in foreign cultures. They found that what is a strength in one culture can become a decided disadvantage when transitioning into a different culture. Global leadership requires that executives change and adapt to fit the customs and the cultures of the country they're in. “What worked splendidly in one culture could bring disaster in the next,” the authors state. “Global ...
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