True global leaders and professionals can harmonize differences, qualify values, unify common beliefs, diversify fresh viewpoints, and unleash collective human potential collaboratively.
Global professionals need to become more open-minded, inclusive, and show intellectual curiosity to embrace a variety of perspectives, enjoy diverse people, culture, issues, to lubricate cross-boundary interactions, co-develop change agenda, and overcome common challenges.
View emerging trends: We live in a more volatile, uncertain, ambiguous and globally distributed world, with exponential growth of information and frequent disruptions. Global leaders and professionals are more open-minded to emerging trends, fresh concepts and novel ideas, develop global cognition by embracing the variety of perspectives, connecting wider dots for harnessing multifaceted values. They are not afraid to leverage contrarian views to shape a holistic picture, broadening their perspective to fix misperceptions, shape fresh insight.
There are lots of things going on globally on a daily basis; every market is a fertile ground for new ideas, fresh knowledge. Business leaders and professionals have more antennae focused on the trends and what’s going on in the world. They are able to scan the external environment to see signals, patterns, and trends that are going to have an impact on their company’s ability to continue to thrive and grow. They can continue learning, share their viewpoint about things or events happening in the global environment, balance global and local needs, and pursue the optimal mix of local operating preferences and nuances along with established global standards.
View of diversified cultures and customs: Culture is a collective programming of the mindsets and attitudes that distinguishes the members of one human group from another. Global culture has enriched context and profound impact on many aspects of human society. Shaping a global mindset goes beyond language, there are interdisciplinary touch points such as anthropological knowledge, sociological diversity, religious beliefs, etc. Thus, it’s also important to deepen understanding of conceptual diversity by practicing independent thinking to embrace diversity of opinions; develop cultural fluency via knowledge aggregation, cross-boundary social interaction, and build global insight holistically.
Being global is about crossing not just geographical borders but also cultural divides between business, government, and social sectors. We co-share this beautiful planet with billions of people; human capital is always the largest asset we have to keep investing, and growing to ensure long term societal advancement. Being a truly global professional means you expand the horizon, develop cultural empathy, improve interdisciplinary knowledge proficiency, and have a variety of professional & life experience dots to connect for spurring great ideas, and developing unique competency.
Global professionals can view complex global problems, engage effectively with multiple internal and external stakeholders, customers and partners worldwide; they can make decisions by leveraging variable factors; develop new capability to expand global business growth; build working environment where the global team and virtual team can thrive, gain universal understanding of crucial problems and co-solve certain issues we all concern about, and drive paradigm shift for accelerating innovation.
Compared to the industrial era with static information and overly restrictive boundaries in the last century, the information-based global society has the very characteristics of hyperdiversity, knowledge abundance, economic interdependence, and culture enrichment. True global leaders and professionals can harmonize differences, qualify values, unify common beliefs, diversify fresh viewpoints, and unleash collective human potential collaboratively.
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