The context in which global leaders do function does remain full of complexity, novelty, variety and also as full of even chaos. Nevertheless, global leaders face a common challenge such as: how to influence the individuals, groups and systems unlike their own to accomplish their employer’s strategic goals as well as objectives.
The single critical success factor in globalizing business does inevitably with an organization’s pool of highly flourishing as well as competent global leaders who, of course, do have the world wide knowledge of production and service capabilities, of consumer demands for products and services round the globe, and who can influence others despite diverse cultural, political and institutional backgrounds that  will make them think, decide, analyze, act and communicate as per differently than the leader. In other words, global leaders with “Global Mindsets” are all as the inevitable as well as invincible key to sustainable competitive advantage in the global economy. What do we, of course, know about developing global leaders and global mindset? We do have four best practices for developing global leaders:

1.Organizations need strategic clairvoyance about what kinds of skills a global leader indeed does require.
2.Prospective global leaders do, of course, need relevant improvement opportunities rather.
3.Prospective global leaders do require certainly the most appropriate levels of feedback, resources and support to help them learn from the experiences they do have.
4.People need indeed the international angles as well as the exposure starting early in their careers to maximize the quality of the globally winning expert pipeline.

The development of expert global leaders is all so complex. Their capabilities are developed over time as well built on threshold competencies that include a requisite level of inquisitiveness as well as a frank openness — natural abilities that are supported by cross-cultural knowledge — and as well a building on a base of business or technical skills. The international experience contributes to their development as do the international management development programs and as also the cross-cultural training programs. But these interventions alone don’t make someone an expert global leader, so to say. It takes for sure a Global Mindset.

What Is Global Mindset rather?
Global Mindset is all so determined as a set of individual attributes that do wonderfully help a global leader to better influence those who are different from them and a Global Mindset profile does consist of three capitals: Intellectual Capital, which denotes to one’s global savvy, cosmopolitan outlook, and as well as to the cognitive complexity; Psychological Capital, which refers to one’s passion for diversity, quest for adventure, and as well as the self-assurance; and Social Capital, which does refer to one’s intercultural empathy, interpersonal impact, and as well as to diplomacy.

Leaders with high levels of Global Mindset have always an inspired and enhanced capability to make all the sense of their context and behave aptly as the context does vary. Leaders with high levels of Global Mindset are all very much of expert the global leader because of their ability to grasp and interpret what is going on in a global environment. They can more effectively interpret verbal and nonverbal messages as also the signals from people from variant or diverse cultures.  In addition, these same expert global leaders demonstrate high levels of flexibility, which manifests as the ability to act differently in different situations and contexts. Finally, leaders with high levels of Global Mindset have the ability to choose the apt behavior or approach in different circumstances or contexts, so to say and affirmed also. Global Mindset can be assessed using a scientific tool which is as known as the Global Mindset Inventory®.

The Global Mindset Inventory
After four years of deep research, the Thunderbird Global Mindset Leadership Institute has accomplished rather two practical goals: 1. The development of a valid and reliable Global Mindset (GMI®) evaluation tool; and 2. The development of valid and reliable approaches such as tools, methodologies and programs as for the sake of the development of a leader’s Global Mindset.

The GMI has been used in executive development programs in numerous countries, in a variant industries and in the for-profit as well as social services sectors and this scientific instrument is all very much available in two versions rather which are as self-assessment and 360 degree and these can all  be jolly well used to measure the Global Mindset profile of a leader, a unit, a team or an organization and it is available at all as an Internet-based questionnaire which has, of course, 76 items as well as it takes all about eight minutes to complete.

Developing Globally Winning Leaders with all the Global Mindset
Thunderbird has much gained an ample perception about what it does take to develop the expert global leaders of the future and organizations aspiring to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in today’s global economy have all rather solidly had a road map of the best practices for developing globally the most competent leaders for many years, so to say. Now, they also have a valid and reliable tool to initiate and to trace out the effectiveness of the developmental process and , the Global Mindset Inventory, which does enable corporations to evaluate their “stock” of Global Mindset; recognize the Global Mindset performance gaps given their strategic objectives; identify the expert global leaders or those with potential to become so ; and track effectiveness of training, stretch assignments and as well also the other developmental interventions in quest of reducing the risk and complexity that does much impede the improvement of  the exceptional global leaders.

As discussed in my previous post, today’s global leaders have three common qualities indeed and the first of these is all a global mindset and the Global mindset can be defined as the efficiency to understand and decode behaviors in multiple cultural contexts and it is all an ability to connect with the people from other cultures on an intellectual and emotional level. The culture does indeed dictate the way we dress, the food we eat, the language we speak, and the stories we tell, of course. Global mindset is thus the capacity to appreciate the differences amidst the cultures and bridge the interfaces between them and the leaders who do possess a global mindset are all as just indeed able to view situations from a very many perspectives, develop trusting relationships with the individuals from different contexts, and identify promising routes to successful collaboration rather.

Developing a global mindset doesn’t come free certainly rather and it is something that has to be actively researched rather. Take the example of Lalit Ahuja, President of Target India and him, Mr. Ahuja did begin his career as an international manager setting up Indian operations for both LG Electronics as well as News Corporation. He was indeed later recruited by the Target to establish a second corporate headquarters in India and in the place of immediately organizing the Indian operation, Ahuja did successfully take a different approach and spend his first six months living in the U.S. and working at Target’s headquarters in Minneapolis. Ahuja did know that his success would depend on perceiving  not only the local Indian context but as well the Midwest American culture in which Target was founded and the matchless corporate culture of the company itself. He also did know that he would need the contacts and friends in Target that he could rely on reasonably. And Ahuja’s personal development is all typical of the endeavor required to obtain a global mindset.