ABSTRACT

Change management is a context-sensitive exercise that needs to be culturally adapted to its environment.  Leading and managing change across cultures requires an investigation of not only the context of the situation, but also the cultural dynamics that are at play. It requires cognitive ability (intellectual clarity), emotional sensitivity, and an ability to adapt di erent leadership styles in order to e ectively in uence people from other cultural backgrounds. Cultural intelligence (CQ) (Ang et al., 2007) and the global mindset (GM) (Javidan and Teagarden, 2011) are two streams of research that attempt to nd a personality type or mindset that might be correlated with superior performance among successful domestic and international managers.