Chapter 9

Successful Leadership Across Cultures

A project based in the United States works with software developers in India and sells the product in China. International and multicultural teams are a common sight in almost all internationally operating corporations. Multicultural and global teams can also be found in small and medium-sized corporations. The Internet and globalization allow business across global work processes and cooperation across cultural and regional boundaries.

In the modern environment, management teams are increasingly composed of members of different cultural backgrounds and located in different offices or locations. Cross-cultural teams have the advantage of very different opinions, values, and aspects in problem solving, ...

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