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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

We have worked together on various projects for several months, so I know what she is capable of. Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. "Siew Tian, why don't you speak up?

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3 Ways to Identify Cultural Differences on a Global Team

Harvard Business Review

For example, the Dutch social psychologist, Geert Hofstede outlined a number of dimensions that highlight ways that cultures differ. ” you can say, “Many people new to projects like this one have a number of questions, what are some of the issues you want to know about?”

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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.