Transnational team members come with so many cultural difference, backgrounds and experiences. I don’t feel we have enough communication with team to get all the under laying facts and assumptions we all bring to the table and this creates challenges in context with International boundaries. The longer we can work together though we can break d…[Read more]

I find in my experience the difficulty in managing the different culturally and professionally diverse teams is the way we use language. It doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone that you can have any entire training session of conference call and everybody thought the speakers meant something. Quite often it’s because the speaker didn’t say what…[Read more]

I think most people are prone to make decisions based on intuition and past experience which has led many organizations to create decision making models to assist staff to move from away from intuition and more to set course of rational capacities, questions and answers and courses of action. This is not to say that we should avoid intuition and…[Read more]

An example of how change could benefit organizations to realize their goals was prior to 9/11 in the US most disaster planning and management was done at the local level. Municipalities, counties and states did their own thing with planning so then if a disaster struck each agency of each municipality, county and state had their own plan,…[Read more]

For leaders to navigate complex situations effectively, I would suggest that they should have first and foremost a clear self-awareness. Self-awareness will reflect in how one learns one’s skills and translates them into action as well as how and why one acts or reacts in curtain ways. I break self-awareness into three pieces which flow in and o…[Read more]