In this 21st century, leaders must operate in a context of multicultural paradoxical complexity to achieve results. Therefore, performance is increasingly dependent on leaders who can be effective in a variety of situations with overlapping cultural contexts.
It is said that cross-cultural conflict is rarely about facts. It is more often about the meaning, interpretation, and feelings that we and others carry across our 360-degree lives.
One difficulty is that the barrage of overlapping domestic & international cultures is messy. It includes national, geographic, ethnic, and organizational contexts. It can also include diversity in gender, age, academic & vocational expertise, ideology, race, faith, and more.
A second difficulty is that determining out of the total mix of overlapping competing cultural contexts which cultural identity ingredient is the most influential on a given situation is a dilemma for leaders.
That is why it is not surprising to find research suggesting that reconciling cultural dilemmas is a distinguishing feature that differentiates more successful leaders from less successful leaders.
Centre for Leadership Effectiveness LLC is dedicated to strengthening performance of individuals, teams, and firms by building deeper competencies to reconcile dilemmas found across international and/or domestically diverse experiences for the following work situations:
Public, Private, & Not-for-Profit contexts
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