Research Paper on:
Cultures and Leadership Differences

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to remember that an international leader combines not only management, but a social and political awareness of the host country as well as the country of his business origin. History  Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says that "one of the great lessons of the last decade is that despite globalization and the Internet,  and CNN, the Euro and all the forces that seem to be pulling us together, the competing of forces of national and cultural identity simply will not be denied."  Albright takes an interesting approach to some of Americas cultural foibles, when she continues: "Culture and cultural differences have a major impact on many of the foreign policy challenges we  confront, whether its trade and biotechnology to ethnic strife and treatment of women," Albright said at a Working Dinner for International Cultural Leaders last year (2000). "And our foreign  policy cant be effective if its oblivious to the fact that there are separate ways of looking at things and on the need to respect other cultures, but also to  be perceived as respecting other cultures," said the Secretary of State. In a marvelous diplomatic twist, Albright has hit the "cultural nail: right  on the head." In other words, we in the United States, meant to be polite and culturally appropriate; other countries just did not know that we meant to be-we  failed at it - but we meant well. That either gets us back to base one, or at least gives us a running start on looking at diversity on  a global scale. Such an opening also gives us the opportunity to examine leadership differences in other cultures, and situate ourselves in a positive position within the global business