Winning with Transglobal Leadership: How to Find and Develop Top Global Talent to Build World-Class Organizations

CHAPTER 5

The Behavioral Dimensions of Transglobal Leaders: What Sets Them Apart?

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

—WILLIAM SHEDD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEOLOGIAN

As we went through the Transglobal Leadership Matrix and the original survey questions we constructed relative to the intelligences discussed in Part I, we found clear contrasts. And when we analyzed our leaders’ survey results, we saw that there were real differences between the best transglobal leaders and those who function better in more local settings. We also saw numerous commonalities between the great leaders across our data sets. Possibly most important, both sets of great leaders have a constructive impact on the culture of their organizations. ...