An outstanding Leadership for cross cultural team(s)
Have you met a person that was thinking in
a completely different way to yours? What kind of impression does it leave on
you? Do you dismiss it immediately, or you find it worthy, erroneous …?
For me it is exciting, definitely because
my life path is somehow atypical, too. In our core we people are similar no
matter where we come from. Not long ago I had a TEDx talk about the human behavior that surpasses “the cultural background noise” – “the
noise” that accompanies us throughout our life and normally influences our
values, ethics and morals, mentally and subconsciously. Unfortunately, this
kind of reasoning I find that is still missing in common stances and leadership
practices. Let me try to show some examples which are going to be based on atypical
views.
From the management’s perspective, managers
perform tasks, manage people and do business. Accordingly, there are numerous
methodologies and tools helping to manage business and people: Just In Time
Production, Kobayashi’s 20 keys, Six Sigma, Business Process Reengineering … to
name some. In business environment, do all these methodologies and tools really
come out the way we need them to? Current economic and financial situation
makes us doubt it. If these tools were as efficient and as great as claimed,
then we should not see companies struggling and vanishing. Why it is then so?