The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

About 90% of firms globally are considered small- and medium-sized enterprises, with such firms representing around 70% of all jobs. Our global assessment showed no significant differences of future readiness of SMEs at the regional or the industry level,” the authors say. Becoming future-ready.

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Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 99

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The second is to dial up their listening behaviors: by listening directly to the people you work with; and indirectly by reading as much as you can—try a simple Google (“Business Customs in X country”) or learn from cross-cultural experts like Geert Hofstede or Miriam Spering.

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Self-aware Hofstede Mentor Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Cross-cultural analysts like Geert Hofstede have said that the biggest difference between the Nordics and other countries are their highly 'feminine' vs 'masculine' values. The Nordic executive team (mostly men) I worked with this week were fascinated by the Hofstede research. Pragmatic indeed.

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Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." The notion applies in any sort of community, from countries to companies to communities to families — anywhere there are two people or more. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure. Top-down leadership exists everywhere.

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Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Lei Jun, CEO of the $10 billion Chinese company Xiaomi, has made headlines for creating products that look and act a lot like Apple’s, such as its new thin smartphone. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. And the comparisons don’t stop there — news reports consistently label Jun’s leadership style as imposture.

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Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8