Global Leadership and Global Mindset Päivö Laine, Kaija-Liisa Kivimäki and Saija Råtts
Global Leadership
Different from domestic leadership in issues related to connectedness boundary spanning complexity ethical challenges dealing with tensions and paradoxes pattern recognition building learning environments, teams and community leading large-scale change efforts across diverse cultures. (Osland & Bird 2006)
Global Leadership
Global leaders need Cross-cultural competence to work and lead successfully. To learn about foreign cultures and ways of doing business in target areas. The ability to interact with business partners and colleagues from different cultures.
C R O SS- C U L T U R A L
COMPETENCIES
Global Mindset
Intellectual Capital
GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
CAN BE LEARNT: WE CAN INCREASE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OR AREAS AS WELL AS THEIR CULTURAL FEATURES.
Psychological Capital
GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL IS THE AFFECTIVE ASPECT OF GLOBAL MINDSET.
THE BEST WAY OF INCREASING GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL IS BEING IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE THAT COME FROM DIFFERENT CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCING DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS. A PERSON WITH GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL IS ABLE TO FACE CROSS-CULTURAL SITUATIONS OPENLY WITHOUT MAKING TOO QUICK INTERPRETATIONS AND WRONG JUDGMENTS.
Social Capital
GLOBAL SOCIAL CAPITAL
RELATES TO NETWORKS AND RELATIONSHIPS WE HAVE WITH PEOPLE WHO COME FROM DIFFERENT NATIONAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS. GLOBAL SOCIAL CAPITAL ENABLES AN INDIVIDUAL TO CONNECT TO AND WORK WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD; SOCIAL SAVVINESS IS MANIFESTED IN UNDERSTANDING NONVERBAL CUES, MANAGING TO CARRY ON CONVERSATIONS AND LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE.
CULTURAL ILLITERACY
AWARENESS
INTELLIGENCE
AGNOSTICISM
A global mindset starts to develop when we meet people coming from other countries and cultures, read about different cultures and have an opportunity of travelling abroad. Experiences make our global intellectual, psychological and social capital grow and help us reach global citizenship.
4 stages in the development of a global mindset:
(Cabrera and Unruh 2012: 47).Â
Think about this: Experiences make our global intellectual, psychological and social capital grow and help us reach global citizenship. What kind of experiences do you have? Describe how they have helped you to grow your global intellectual, psychological and social capital.