Chief Learning Officer - June 2008 - (Page 42) What is global mindset and how can senior learning professionals establish it in their leadership pipelines, given the certainty that the demand for global leaders will continue to outstrip the supply? 2. What knowledge a leader integrates and how it is integrated are fundamentally different for a global leader than for a domestic leader. Global leaders can see many different perspectives and views at once — even contradictory ones. They are able to extract what is important from complex data and decode it accurately. Rather than having a single interpretation of an event and an immediate response, a global leader chooses from a broader behavioral repertoire than a domestic leader. This way of thinking, and all that enables it, is what we mean by “global mindset.” What Differentiates Global Mindset From Domestic Mindset? Global leaders possess 10 interdependent characteristics that we group into three categories — intellect, psychology and knowledge and skills — although not all these attributes are uniquely associated with global rather than domestic leaders. (See Figure 1.) Knowledge and skills: Global leaders must broadly understand cultural, political and socioeconomic conditions, history and interrelations, and the breadth of this knowledge outstrips what domestic leaders need. They also need a greater behavioral repertoire, a broader set of behaviors to call on, contextually appropriate for a range of situations. Capacity and complexity in this realm are not just a difference in degree but a difference in kind: Global leaders must acquire http://www.mclabs.com/clo
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