Globalisation poses new leadership challenge

摘要

Globalisation is one of the new leadership challenges at present. How to deal with and operate alongside leaders from different cultures is crucial. In the early 1990s, Professor Robert J House of the Wharton Business School in the US had a prescient notion. Looking at the global nature of business, he set out to determine what defined leaders around the world and compare their styles and values. House launched the Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program, the most in-depth study of its kind, gathering data from 61 nations with the help of 170 cross-cultural scholars. The GLOBE study tells us that effective leaders everywhere have universal similarities. They are charismatic, dynamic, optimistic, socially adept - not narcissistic - and are expected to be trustworthy and have foresight.