Announcing "Leadership in a Cross-Cultural World 2.0"

After a few months on hiatus, “Leadership in a Cross-Cultural World: A Crowd-Sourced Blog” has been rebooted and now offers several new teaching/learning tools to help students in higher education classrooms connect with each other and with professionals in culturally diverse workplaces. 

The blog is now offered as a credit item in Northwestern University’s Spring 2016 course, “Global Leadership: Developing the Mindset That Matters.” Within the next few days, students will be posting their thoughts, and I invite you to join the conversation.   

While students’ questions related to leadership and cross-cultural challenges will remain the blog’s primary focus, new content will offer more ways to explore ideas and exchange perspectives on today’s culturally diverse workplaces. Here’s a preview of what you’ll find on the 2.0 edition of “Leadership in a Cross-Cultural World.”

Conversations with 21st Century Leaders explores the real-life experiences of today’s leaders.  In these videotaped interviews leaders recount the challenges they have faced and address a student’s question that is particularly relevant to their experience.
 

In the Spotlight features examples of classroom excellence, instances where students’ curiosity or emotional connection to the issues around leadership and diversity caused them to pursue a line of inquiry beyond the classroom that yielded important insights.

Letters from Leaders offers excerpts from the book, Letters from Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow’s Leaders from the World’s Most Influential People, compiled by Henry O. Dormann, who says of leaders: “Some leave money, others leave inspiration.  Many leave both.  But all are anxious for young people to learn from their successes and even their failures.”

Talking About TED provides selected TED Talks that expand on the basic concepts of leadership and cross-cultural communication, touching on self-development, leadership behavior, integrative thinking, team-building and gender issues.  Students’ reactions to the presentations will be posted to the blog along with your comments.

Stories that Matter presents real-world stories shared by workplace professionals in a study that examined the meaning of intercultural competence and how it plays out in the workplace and in their lives.

I hope these new features will stimulate your thoughts and prompt you to share them with an engaged group of students who are eager to learn. Thank you in advance for your contributions and support for the project.

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Posted on LinkedIn 4/8/16