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In Manfred Kets de Vries\u2019 book The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise<\/em>, he discusses many of the undercurrents within the mind and heart of leaders, in general, and global leaders in particular. I saw myself and my current engagements in these pages. I also realized that this book parallels Edwin Friedman\u2019s A Failure of Nerve<\/em>. In fact reading The Leadership Mystique<\/em> involved processing the relationship between cultural intelligence [CQ] and self-differentiation. Being well differentiated contributes significantly to CQ and emotional intelligence [EQ].<\/p>\n Kets de Vries says, \u201c…emotional intelligence…is at least as important as logical-mathematical intelligence. A high IQ…can be trumped by a high EQ.\u201d [1] He states EQ increases as we become aware of our emotional processes and learn to control those emotions. \u201cSelf-knowledge is the first step toward emotional intelligence.\u201d [2] He writes about a leader\u2019s \u201cinternal theater\u201d and the \u201cinterplay of rational and irrational forces behind executive behavior.\u201d He asks, \u201cWhat are the script and setting of this person\u2019s internal theater?\u201d [3] He looks at \u201cThe failure factor in leadership,\u201d and \u201cdissects the interplay of rational and irrational forces behind executive behavior.\u201d [4]<\/p>\n In A Failure of Nerve<\/em> Edwin Friedman describes a self-differentiated person and says, \u201c…I mean someone who has clarity about his or her own life goals, and, therefore someone who is less likely to become lost in the anxious emotional processes swirling about…I mean someone who can manage his or her own reactivity…\u201d [5] Friedman points to a healthy leader as one who is aware of the simultaneous operation of the emotional and rational aspects of our inner workings, and is therefore well differentiated.<\/p>\n Although the terminology is different in these two books and the fine-tuning of the inner workings differs, they both recognize that strong and effective leaders are self-aware and able to control these inner workings.<\/p>\n I found significant connection to Kets de Vries\u2019 writing in two particular chapters. In Chapter 8, \u201cCharacteristics of effective leadership,\u201d he wrote, \u201cMajor demographic shifts are taking place, including ever-growing urbanization and growth in what the West likes to term \u2018minority groups,\u2019\u201d [6]<\/p>\n \u201cThose leaders wise enough to realize that they can\u2019t ignore these changes are looking desperately for answers. They want to know…what the implications of all these changes are for their organizations. They want to know what kind of leadership competencies will be needed to address those implications, and what the marketplace changes have to say about how we select and develop the leaders of tomorrow.\u201d [7]<\/p>\n We see a kind of cultural and racial shift in Corvallis because of the 4,000 international students living and studying here. Consequently the need for global leadership has come to our own doorstep.<\/p>\n As with books we read last year, represented by Leading with Cultural Intelligence<\/em>, [8] Kets de Vries makes a strong case for the realities of globalization and the implications of this phenomenon for leaders today. My D. Min. project focuses on leadership training for international students prior to their return home. But even though a major part of our preparation for this education focuses on training appropriate to the culture of each student, Kets de Vries has helped me realize that because of the realities of globalization, these students need to be trained as global leaders because of the rapidly changing global community. Even China cannot escape the realities and effects of globalization. We witnessed this in Hong Kong as a Special Administrative District, with financial legal specialists linking Chinese stock markets with the rest of the world, via Hong Kong.<\/p>\n In The Leadership Mystique<\/em> Chapter 9, \u201cLeadership in a global context,\u201d was the second place of particular personal connection, with significant relevance for my dissertation project. Kets de Vries says, \u201cWith the increasing globalization of business, we can no longer ignore the fact that there\u2019s a strong cultural dimension to leadership – that is, that there are variations in what\u2019s acceptable as a leadership style depending on one\u2019s national culture.\u201d [9]<\/p>\n He describes the institution where he teaches. \u201c…INSEAD, a business school in France and Singapore, which has no national identity, is a breeding ground for attitudes of cultural relativity. INSEAD students work in mixed-nationality study groups over their ten-month course. As these individuals work together on various projects, they develop the necessary cross-cultural mindset, minimizing ethnocentricity.\u201d [10]<\/p>\n Reading this paragraph felt like he had been reading my mind. It forced serious rethinking of the outcome I seek as I work with Cornerstone School Of Ministry in cross-cultural leadership development. I suddenly began to ask myself, \u201cDo we want to create Chinese and American leaders, or do we want to train Global Leaders?\u201d The latter seems to be the better goal.<\/p>\n Kets de Vries says, \u201cGlobal leaders must create multicultural organizational communities by establishing a corporate culture that transcends these differences and establishes a number of \u2018beacons\u2019 – values and attitudes – that are comprehensible to employees from diverse cultural groups.\u201d [11]<\/p>\n After reading this I am now thinking that my target artifact should be an International Leadership Community designed to create global leaders. We must \u201ccreate a multicultural school community by establishing an educational culture that transcends cultural differences and establishes values and attitudes that are comprehensible to students from diverse cultural groups.\u201d<\/p>\n [1] Manfred Kets de Vries, The Leadership Mystique: Leading Behavior in the Human Enterprise,<\/em> (Harlow, England: Prentice Hall, 2006), 23. Every Wednesday at noon I walk into a kind of liminal space and seek to be a global leader. 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\n[2] Ibid., 26.
\n[3] Ibid., xx.
\n[4] Ibid., xxii.
\n[5] Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix<\/em>, (New York, NY: Seabury Books, 2007), 14.
\n[6] Kets de Vries, 164.
\n[7] Ibid., 164.
\n[8] David Livermore, Leading With Cultural Intelligence<\/em>, (New York, NY: AMACOM, 2015).
\n[9] Kets de Vries, 174.
\n[10] Ibid., 190.
\n[11] Ibid., 192.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"