Global Leadership, Culture & Mythology

These flashcards capture key concepts from the lecture on global leadership, culture, and mythology, aiding in the review and understanding of the material.

Global Leadership

A process reflecting how an individual engages in and fulfills global roles and responsibilities, which includes sense-making and the nature of relationships in a global context.

Essential Skills for Global Leaders

Skills including uncompromising integrity, unbridled inquisitiveness, emotional connection with diverse backgrounds, handling duality of information and action, and business savvy.

Culture

Learned beliefs, values, rules, symbols, and traditions common to a group, which make them unique.

Cultural Patterns

Tendencies that arise when individuals resist changing their cultural habits, often evaluating others based on their own cultural perspectives.

Encapsulation

A state where leaders are surrounded by those of similar cultures and thus develop limited perspectives, relying heavily on their own stereotypes.

Myths

Sacred stories that convey core principles and morals, communicate societal significance, and evolve with societal changes.

Mythology

A collection or study of traditional stories used by a culture to explain the world and its origins, typically involving supernatural beings and moral lessons.

Cultural Models

Frameworks that describe how personal, national, and corporate cultures interact and influence individual behavior within various contexts.

Leadership & Mythology

The intersection of cultural mythology and leadership explores themes of power, morality, and how leaders develop within their cultural contexts.

Global Leadership Development

The process of learning and leveraging cultural mythology to adapt and thrive in a globalized environment.