Is multicultural leadership important to your management team?
As the world becomes smaller with advances in technology and the global population becomes more diverse, leaders need to understand that multicultural leadership is important to the growth and success of their organizations. We surveyed leadership development experts from around the world to gain their Tweet: insights about multicultural leadership and management trends in their countries – and around the world.
Renata Tulsie
Trinidad & Tobago
Multicultural leadership is important because the world is shrinking; there is greater global connectedness and connectivity among people. Many more organisations are becoming multinational, transnational so the ability to adapt (not necessarily adopt) to seamlessly cross borders and embrace varying leadership styles is paramount today.
Naresh Purushotham
India
The world has flattened and, increasingly, talent will come from younger nations like India and China. With the Western population slowing down and aging faster, Tweet: organizations will look to recruiting talent from across the world.
Anurag Sharma
India
Businesses are transcending political boundaries. Multinational companies operate in and transact with employees, peers, colleagues, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders from different countries and cultures.
Jennifer Goodrich
USA
Multicultural leadership is important for two reasons. First, many of our organizations are multinationals. Their issues and challenges require solutions that consider the multicultural impact. Second, many solutions to common issues are not obvious when considering the perspective of just one culture. Just as a three-dimensional model gives better insight than a two-dimensional drawing, the ability to draw on experiences and common practices from multiple cultures, Tweet: provides leaders with better insights into possible solutions.
Alfonso Contreras
Chile
Multicultural leadership is important because of the need to keep competitive advantage:
- Current global network requires an innovation approach to be competitive, is a way to differentiate from competitors.
- Successful practices are born every day, all around the world. We need to stay current with these new practices to continually be able to use the best available.
- The integration of practices from different origins. Tweet: Multicultural leadership broadens our management toolkit and perspectives.
Ingrid Martinez
Dominican Republic
Multicultural leadership is the only way a leader will be able to be successful in this connected world. Only by knowing cultures deeply will leaders be able to survive challenges and take advantage of opportunities.
Mohamed Berrada
Morocco
Multicultural leadership is important because Tweet: it is everywhere in the marketplace and business trends show clearly that it will become more and more required for people to be able to work remotely and with numerous parts of the world.
John Nyakahuma
Rwanda
Workplaces are becoming more and more multicultural by the day. Multicultural leadership is important because Tweet: diverse cultures mean diverse habits, expectations, and experiences. Leaders have to become adept at navigating this terrain to be successful.
Robert Jenkins
The Philippines
Multicultural leadership is important because workers are becoming more mobile and a typical workforce is now more likely to be comprised of individuals from different countries and cultures.
