What Successful Global Managers Possess
by Joel Martin ~ April 21st, 2007. Filed under: Business, Cultural, Diversity, Education.From Mary Teagarden, a professor of global strategy at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, in Phoenix, AZ: “What is essential in a global environment is the ability to work with individuals, groups, organizations, and systems that are unlike our own,” she says. “We must also understand what differentiates people and what unites them. Understanding that tension—how are we alike and how are we different—is a critically important starting point.” And here are three success factors she identifies: “(1) a belief that differences matter; (2) openness to new and different ideas; and (3) cognitive complexity, or the ability to focus on both the “hard” and “soft” metrics in an organization—the hard quantitative side along with the softer, people side.”
Dr. Teagarden states it loud and clear: Diversity training is a global commitment. It truly goes beyond race and gender!
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