Use the rest of 2024 to develop a global executive mindset

Everybody knows Winston Churchill’s advice never to “waste a good crisis”, yet everyone struggles. If your executive career blueprint worked for five years, ten or twenty, it’s hard to change. If you’re new to the global leadership game, your gut doesn’t tell you what worked before and what didn’t: the Cold War, Microsoft’s early days and the 2008 financial crisis are history to you.

That means everyone must learn, and that is easier if your team, business unit or firm isn’t divided across geographic, functional, generational and ideological lines. The world is polarising and while defending one side or another (and calling the opposite side irresponsible, stupid or criminal) may be great for your social media clicks, it’s bad for business.

As opposed to politics and media, in corporate careers the future belongs to people who are able to bridge culturally diverse geographic locations, quarrelling departments, seniors and juniors, staunch defenders of incompatible parties and ideologies and yes, even build collaboration between warring states. That is what is meant by “a global mindset”.

Where can you start?

The basic idea behind a global executive mindset is that demands, supplies and the resources, ideas and people to match them are all over the place, and you can pull them together.

Yes, that’s it. Then the hard work begins. I will spend the rest of 2024 sharing lessons I learn from C-suite executive coaching clients, and what I learned from successful global bridge builders since I was first promoted into a rather frightening international leadership position at age 30, just after the world-shattering “Y2K” collapse that never happened. (If you’re in your 30s or younger, that’s also history.)

My free webinars, YouTube videos and speeches will stimulate discussions about approaching divisions as opportunities, and the skills you need to make the best use of those opportunities. As an executive coach, workshop facilitator and advisor, I will help my clients develop leadership skills, leadership teams and human resources strategies for East-West cooperation.

Here are a few recent and upcoming events, offers and things worth following.

YouTube: Awareness, skills and good habits for leading teams across multiple time zones https://youtu.be/kiP-vDXs6iw?si=FzbpG06og6ujBelh

YouTube: Why top-talent expats don’t flock to China like they used to, where they go and who will do the essential work of China-based foreigners https://youtu.be/8DVbWepJH-Y?si=pIJKtqKisZnK8nrz

My free webinar on Executive Presence across cultures in September, Dragon Suit book event in Paris in October and more: https://www.holch.biz/events

An executive coaching offer that is not online yet: if your managers sign up for at least 5 hours of East-West Leadership or Dragon Suit coaching, I will send their autographed copy of Dragon Suit anywhere in the world. Message me or book a 15-minute call to get your custom offer: https://calendly.com/gabor-holch/15-minute-enquiry