GEM&L (Research Group on Management & Language) is delighted to announce our next GEM&L webinar with a book presentation by Prof. Sierk Horn on Intercultural Leadership: Humanistic Perspectives.

Registration link: https://fen-uchile.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rfuitqj4jGdFidFrP49DaNMrrBj0rL1Z6

Sierk Horn

March 6, 2024. 4pm CET | 3pm GMT | 10am EDT | 7am PDT

Registration link: https://fen-uchile.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rfuitqj4jGdFidFrP49DaNMrrBj0rL1Z6

Book presentation summary:

Employers consistently point to strong intercultural leadership skills as the key to professional success. In a complex, fast-paced and interconnected environment, constraints of building rapport become, however, all too quickly apparent. In many business books, cross-cultural engagement is still largely treated based on frameworks that scaffold cultural variation as a universal phenomenon. In these models, the behaviour of leaders is assumed to be pegged at the national level and thus fixed. They make dealing with unfamiliar others look deceptively easy. The book offers a different, humanistic approach. Communicating with genuine curiosity and appreciation for people and the world around us can better build relationships. And the starting point for making good contact with others is to look inward, not outward.