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

CHAPTER 6

Traditional Diversity Versus Transglobal Diversity: The New Order and Debate

To be a successful global leader, you must be a “builder”—you must grow the business, you must build capabilities and build an organization that can solve its own problems. Truly embracing diversity is a key tenet of a “builder.” The command-and-control or do-it-yourself leader does not tend to build these capabilities. Building networks globally requires embracing diversity and tapping into all of the varied and diverse capabilities of the organization.

—DAVID MAISTER, AUTHOR AND ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING AUTHORITIES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL AND LOCAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRMS¹

Our research results are consistent with Maister’s sentiment that building ...