Intercultural.Leadership

inter cultural leadership Pablo Villoch Wednesday, 9/9/09 15:30 @ Learning Lab 2215 Open Mind Weekly Hour

Intercultural Leadership Intro questions Our World Map Culture Leading Diversity Have you ever…? Why Pablo Why leadership Why intercultural Peters Map Vs. Mercator projection Map is not territory Metaphores: Iceberg, colour, of water software of the mindvb Evidences Identity politics Software of the mind

Intro questions Are you familiar with intercultural issues? Have you ever heard about culture shock? Have you ever lived abroad for at least one year? Have you ever heard about Peter’s map projection?

Intro questions Why Pablo? Why Intercultural? Why Leadership?

Intro questions Why Pablo?

Son of a Basque engineer and Andalusian Flamenco Dancer

Married with a Chilean woman (intercultural love)

Intercultural Management in Monterrey Tech, Mexico

& intercultural studies in UPLA, Chile

Worked as freelance intercultural consultant for:

Nokia, P&G, Johnson & Jonhson, BD, Hatch, SKM, Finning, LAN

Volunteered with indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico

and gypsy children in Malaga, Spain

- Member of AIESEC & SIETAR

Intro questions Why Intercultural?

Inter-action

In between

Multicultural

Cross-cultural

Intro questions Why Leadership?

This Masters programme is about Leadership…

Leadership makes a difference

- How to transform diversity conflicts into innovation opportunities

- Leading homogenous teams vs. Leading diverse groups

Multicultural Innovative Countries Multicultural countries suffering wars during last decade

Failed States according to Foreign Policy, 2005-2007 Alert Warning Moderate Sustainable No Information / Dependent Territory

Our World Map

Our World Map Are you sure?

Ex-USSR: 8.7 million square miles. Africa: 11.6 million square miles Our World Map

Europe is 3.8 million square miles. South America is 6.9 million square miles Our World Map

Groenlandia 0.8 million sq. miles Africa: 11.6 million sq. miles Our World Map

http://www.petersmap.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters_map Peters projection Mercator´s projection

Gerardus Mercator Flemish cartographer XVI century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters_projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters_projection

http://odtmaps.org/images/sideb.jpg

http://odtmaps.org/images/Water4x6.jpg

The Map is not the Territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation (Alfred Korzybski)

Culture… can we see it? can´t we? Culture

What is the colour of water?

What is the colour of water for the fish that lives its whole life in it?

CULTURE as ICEBERG

tangible intangible behaviors icons speech technologies practices artifacts rituals

intangible attitudes history paradigms structures values beliefs logics stereotypes expectations interests tangible behaviors icons speech technologies practices artifacts rituals

Culture: Software of the mind Geert Hofstede (IBM) Individualism - Colectivism Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance Masculinity - Feminity

Low Power Distance /Colectivistic pak Colectivism Individualism High Power Distance/ Colectivistic Low Power distance/ Individualistic High Power distance/ Individualistic col tai per ven sin tha ira jap arg ind phi mex yug hok por gre tur bra spa saf fra bel ita can gbr usa aul net nzl den aut isr fin ger swi swe ire nor Hofstede, G., 1990 chil Low Power Distance High Power Distance

Last Americas Summit

IDENTITY POLITICS: the otherness got the power…

Professional cultures

Organizational cultures in mergers

Culture of Poverty

Male Culture and Gender

Functional sub-cultures: MKT, FZ, HR…

German: “Führung” means guidance in organizations -> uncertainty reduction

Arabic: “Sheikh” means a man over forty. How ever in the Gulf and Saudia Arabia, “Sheikh means a person from the Royal Family. In Egýpt, Sheikh means a sholar of religion

French: Counduit , “Means to guide one’s behavior, to guide oters ot to command action.

Chinese : means leader and the led. The Leader is the one who walks in front and guides the group by teaching the way.

Meaning of Leadership across cultures

http://www.internationalmta.org/Documents/2007/2007051T.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05_7OS4gq_c

http://www.thunderbird.edu/wwwfiles/sites/globe/pdf/process.pdf http://www.thunderbird.edu/sites/globe/ http://www.globalbusinessleadership.com/ http://www.internationalmta.org/Documents/2007/2007051T.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05_7OS4gq_c http://www.sietar.org/ http://www.geert-hofstede.com/ Resources on Intercultural Leadership

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