Today’s globalisation demands new leadership skills and dimensions, especially in the area of cultural intelligence. Earley and Mosakowski (2004) explain that cultural competence is more than rote memorisation of a culture’s practices and beliefs; it involves, among other elements, an adoption of a culture’s habits and mannerisms. They further elaborate that through the adoption of customs and use of culturally relevant gestures, global leaders demonstrate to peers they hold them in high enough esteem to want to emulate them.

We should ask ourselves more specifically how does cultural intelligence compare to emotional intelligence–perhaps EI enacted or lacking in these profiles—and also how do certain personality traits (such as profiled in the Big 5 typology) play into cultural intelligence? (See Northouse text chapter 2 pages 26-29).

Thoughts?

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