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Hofstede Culture Dimensions

Leadership and Change

I’ve introduced Geert Hofstede a couple of posts ago, so I’ll share a bit more about his work as an “in-between post” in my Personal Positive Power blog series. The post Hofstede Culture Dimensions appeared first on Leadership & Change Magazine. He researched national cultures and I admire his work.

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Are you aware of culture?

Leadership and Change

Lately, I discussed communication in my Personal Positive Power series to make a positive difference. Geert Hofstede, the Dutch culture researcher and one of my true gurus (I love his work) says: Culture reproduces itself. But are you aware of how your communication is influenced by the culture you’re part of?

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The Key Leadership Skill?

Great Leadership By Dan

In the 1970’s the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede developed a way of looking at cultural differences. It measures how differential members of a society are to those in positions of power. Colombians are invariably polite and non confrontational to those they see as being in a position of power.

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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

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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How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies

Harvard Business Review

Lots of business leaders want their organizations to have a positive social impact. To measure the short-term orientation of a country, we gathered information on the cultural dimensions of the sample countries using information from Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture. Paul Garbett for HBR. So why don’t they?

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

Harvard Business Review

In particular, we looked at how different countries compared on 16 cultural values developed by psychologists Geert Hofstede and Shalom Schwartz, the GLOBE Project , and the World Values Survey. We tried to answer this by identifying the cultural values that prevailed in these ancestral countries.

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