Fons Trompenaars

First published nearly 20 years ago, RIDING THE WAVES OF CULTURE became the standard guide to leading effectively in an international business context. Now, the third edition takes you beyond cross-cultural awareness and 'issues' to help you take strategic advantage of cultural differences in the business environment.Leveraging their expansive cultural database as well as brand-new research findings, the authors explain how to build the skills, sensitivity and cultural awareness necessary for managing effectively across cultural borders - and seize all the opportunities diversity brings to an organisation.

Servant leadership emphasises the leaders role as steward of the resources (human, financial and otherwise) provided by the organisation.It encourages leaders to serve others while staying focused on achieving results in line with the organisations values and integrity. Where the workforce is diverse, people will operate from different values. The result will be a clash of cultures. In Servant leadership across cultures, Fons Trompenaars and Ed Voerman use numerous examples to show how servant leadership can be used to attain a true resolution, superseding compromise.It is an effective instrument to break through the pattern of cultural stereotyping and counterproductive behaviour and to reconcile opposing viewpoints.