Successful global leaders are effective boundary spanners.

70% of international ventures failures are attributed to cultural differences.

Why? Because team members who have been socialized in different cultural contexts frequently experience difficulties understanding each other. They fail to decipher, let alone leverage, each other’s unique strengths to reach personal and group performance.

But it is within this mosaic of separate cultures and cross-cultural interactions that twenty-first-century multinational organizations can thrive.

Today, cross-cultural management competences are absolutely essential for global leaders to reach the highest levels of performance.