The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

The importance of organizational agility was reaffirmed in a second report , from the Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) Future Readiness Centre. It brings to mind the groundbreaking work of Dutch sociologist Geert Hofstede. Organizational agility. Cultural similarities.

Company 104

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 104

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." Top-down leadership exists everywhere. It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure.

Power 14

Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

So we relied on a setting where firms faced an unexpected competitive shock, one that directors could not have anticipated and selected specific CEOs to manage it, and one that forced CEOs to make complex, non-routine, and unstructured decisions — decisions where CEOs’ characteristics are likely to affect how they respond.

Banking 10

Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

And the comparisons don’t stop there — news reports consistently label Jun’s leadership style as imposture. ” In this age of authentic leadership , originality is at a premium, and people perceive imitation as more fakery than flattery. Leadership Managing yourself' He gets the audience pumped.”

Hofstede 8

Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8