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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

Yet, when her CEO enters the room specifically to seek feedback in her area of expertise, I once again watch her shrink from being a bright, outgoing creative professional to a subordinate who speaks in carefully couched, formal terms. Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." Take Malaysia , for example.

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Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants

Harvard Business Review

Research has long shown that cultural values are deeply rooted and that immigrants to the U.S. For example, we found that Jamie Dimon , the CEO of JP Morgan, is a third-generation descendant of Greek immigrants to the U.S. show a degree of cultural distinctness over several generations. For instance, U.S.