The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Dutch social scientist Geert Hofstede famously developed the Power Dimension Index, which compares a number of characteristics that allows us to compare different cultures. Hofstede argued that these cultural differences can explain around half of the differences observed in how we react to various situations as managers.

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Hofstede Leadership Styles Environment Power 80

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.

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Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

Leadership and Change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Geert Hofstede, the Dutch culture researcher and one of my true gurus (I love his work) says: Culture reproduces itself. appeared first on Leadership & Change Magazine. But are you aware of how your communication is influenced by the culture you’re part of? You learn when to be proud and when to. The post Are you aware of culture?

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Hofstede Magazine Positioning Influence 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Cross-cultural analysts like Geert Hofstede have said that the biggest difference between the Nordics and other countries are their highly 'feminine' vs 'masculine' values. The Nordic executive team (mostly men) I worked with this week were fascinated by the Hofstede research. Pragmatic indeed.

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Hofstede Cooper Leadership Styles Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

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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Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 13

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 13, 2013

In the 1970’s the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede developed a way of looking at cultural differences. The leadership lesson. Leadership may well be about vision and inspiration and charisma and motivation but at its heart leadership is about communication, and at least half of communication is about listening.

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Skills Hofstede Leadership Charisma 263