Influence and Lateral Leadership Across Cultures: Q&A
Yadvinder is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Neglob in Torino, Italy.
Modern leaders and managers increasingly recognize the importance of being able to influence people over whom they don’t have formal authority. Because authority is becoming an ambiguous concept, contemporary leaders can no longer simply tell others what to do.
Yadvinder Rana provided guidance to the ProjectManagement.com community on how to exhibit influence and lateral leadership across cultures in his webinar Influence and Lateral Leadership Across Cultures. Thank you to all of those who participated and asked questions during the session! Here Yadvinder offers some answers:
1. Are they measuring the change of high/low context nations over time? Is it changing as we become more global oriented?
To my knowledge there is no hard data, but I can provide my opinion. The world is going through a strong phase of urbanization. Usually urbanization is linked to a shift from collectivism to individualism. As a consequence, maybe the world is becoming slightly lower context.
2. How does gender play into all of this across cultures?
Gender is a key factor, and gender stereotypes are strongly affected by culture. Furthermore, differences in roles exist universally. Masculinity versus femininity is one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions: the degree to which culture will foster, encourage or maintain differences between males and females:
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