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.

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

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.

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Power Hofstede Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 20

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 14

Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 14

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.”

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Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8