With a growing number of American companies and organizations expanding their reach globally, the concept of growing leaders capable of working in a variety of different cultures is an increasing challenge for the human resources professional.
What does it take to be a flexible leader who can adapt to any post, regardless of where it is located?
It turns out there’s no simple answer to that since every country is different, but the one outstanding characteristic for the leader abroad is an excellence in communication skills.
There’s no denying the need to build global leaders as one company after another opens offices in India, China, Russia, the Nordic countries and all parts of Europe.
Three years ago Forbes magazine conducted an extensive research project to see what skills these project leaders had to take with them and discovered that the answer was quite complex. The problem is that what works well in one country as a leadership strength does not necessarily play well in another.
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