Leadership in Action: Cultural Adaptability: It's About more than Using the Right Fork

DOMINO EFFECT

In any discussion of cultural accountability, one of the key questions is, how much is too much? As globalization has come of age, concern has been raised about its potential negative effects, such as homogenization, a blurring of national and cultural identities, and loss of local control. It has become increasingly evident that to be effective and to resist these negative effects, global managers must have a thorough knowledge of and acute insight into cultural issues. They can no longer attend exclusively to the interests of their own organizations, because doing so can come back to haunt them. Their decisions and actions affect the well-being of people in other cultures and the internal workings of other countries, so they have ...