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The Key Leadership Skill?

Great Leadership By Dan

How could trained professionals miscommunicate so badly? In the 1970’s the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede developed a way of looking at cultural differences. It is more than unwise to try to land a plane that is weighed down with tanks full of flammable liquid.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

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.