Cross-Cultural Leadership

Editorial Team

Welcome to the Cross-Cultural Leadership course at New World University.

This course is about cultural intelligence and its application to leadership. Leaders emerge from all walks of life, in formal and informal ways, and notions of leadership differ amongst cultures. This course uses the definition of leadership from the GLOBE study of leadership across cultures: the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations which they are members.

This course relies with our gratitude on the first edition of Leading with Cultural Intelligence by David Livermore and other works as noted throughout. As such its long form readings are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Leadership

A Personal Introduction to CCL
Cross-Cultural Leadership: Why and Who?
Outline of Cross-Cultural Leadership
Cross-Cultural Leadership Terminology

A Global Community

A Global Community

Culturally Intelligent Leadership Matters

Culturally Intelligent Leadership Matters
The Difference between Managers and Leaders
Importance of Leadership in a Global Economy
Culturally Intelligent Leadership Summary

Understanding Culture

Understanding Culture
Cultural Systems
What is Culture? 
Culture is Learned
Culture is Shared
Culture is Dynamic
Culture is Systemic
Culture is Symbolic
Stereotypes and Generalizations
Levels of Culture
The Roots of Culture
Value Dimensions of Culture
Culture and Leadership
Understanding Culture Summary

Cultural Intelligence Defined

Cultural Intelligence Defined
What is Cultural Intelligence?
Cultural Intelligence Model
What Makes Cultural Intelligence Unique? 
The Labyrinth of Cultural Intelligence
Cultural Intelligence Summary

Thinking About Thinking

What is Cognition?
What is Metacognition?
Techniques for Developing Strategic Thinking
Cultural Strategic Thinking Techniques
Thinking About Thinking Summary

I Think I Can and I Will

What is Self-Efficacy?
The Role of Self-Efficacy in Cultural Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy
Mindfulness and Self-Efficacy
Mindlessness and Self-Efficacy
Developing Your Self-Efficacy 
Self-Efficacy Summary

Adapting and Performing

Adapting and Performing
Concept of Self
Cognitive Dissonance
Linguistic Relativity
Behavior and Communication
Changing Behaviors, Changing Minds
Changing Minds Through Storytelling
Adapting and Performing Summary

Cultural Intelligence in Action

Case Study 1: Resistance to Change
Case Study 2: Young, Confident, and Moving too Fast
Case Study 3: Building a Multicultural Team—Is it Worth it? 
Case Study 4: A New Leadership Culture
Case Study 5: Marketing the Right Messages
Case Study 6: On Opposite Political Sides
Case Study 7: From Hometown to Global Village
Case Study 8: No Dogs Allowed
Case Study 9: Faith and Health
Case Study 10: An Old Boy’s Club 

Intercultural and International Business Communication

Intercultural and International Business Communication
Intercultural Communication
How to Understand Intercultural Communication
Common Cultural Characteristics
Divergent Cultural Characteristics
International Communication and the Global Marketplace
Styles of Management
The International Assignment

The Future of Cultural Intelligence

The Future of Cultural Intelligence
Reframing
Adaptive Work
Interdependency
Consciousness
A Return to the Cultural Labyrinth

Additional Resources

Cross-Cultural Leadership Resources
Intercultural Communications Resources