Ben L. Kedia and Ananda Mukherji, Global managers: Developing a mindset from global competitiveness

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Ben L. Kedia is a Director of the Wang Center for International Business Education and Ananda Mukherji is a Dirctor from ZoomInfo, the largest index of business people in the world (source: Wikipedia) . They emphasize in this article the huge importance of having skills other than technical skills for a manager, so that he may have a global vision, and the ability to evolve in other cultural environments. However, they define the different types of managers and promote the one with the perfect mindset.

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[...] Kedia and Ananda Mukherji, Global managers: Developing a mindset from global competitiveness Ben L. Kedia is a Director of the Wang Center for International Business Education and Ananda Mukherji is Dr from ZoomInfo, the largest index of business people in the world (source: Wikipedia) . They emphasize in this article the huge importance for a manager to have other skills than his technical skills that are a global vision, and the ability to evolve in other cultural environment. But they define the different types of managers and they promote the one with the perfect mindset. [...]

[...] Indeed Kedia and Mukherji quote many authors and they build some charts, some graphics that give credit to their thinking. But we can regret the lack of testimonies, as it was used by Gregersen and Black . It would have permit to illustrate the different mindset of managers described here. This is surely an ethnographic approach like Phillipe D'Iribarne promotes it but it remains a little bit theorist. About the substance of the article I think that this article is quite a synthesis of what has been said about the topic of cross-cultural management. [...]

[...] In other words the manager has to combine technical knowledge and human skills. Then the authors introduce the four current types of managers. The defender is the role model for the managers who want to fail. He focuses on his domestic market and is hostile to everything which is foreigner. The explorer could be compared to an entrepreneur, as he tries to expand abroad while working harder on his domestic activities. The controller is quite the opposite. He invests more in his abroad activities The integrator tries to combine his different grounds of activities by taking the most advantages of globalization. [...]