Leadership in International Business Report 2022

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Leadership in International business:
Good morning everyone. Today I will be elaborating the topic leadership in
international business. To start with I will give you a brief explanation of what exactly is
Leadership in international business.
To survive in the world of business, leaders should possess certain characteristic. The
traits of a good leader in the corporate world is not necessarily a global business leader. In
any domestic setting, leadership plays a major role in portraying the culture, belief and
practices of the place. Leaders in order to survive in the global market should have an
understanding and should be sensitive to cultural diversity (Braun et al., 2013). The leaders
should have a versatile personality in order to make the team members listen to the
instructions of the leader. The leader should also possess effective communication skills and
negotiation skills to deal with the global business environment. International leadership on
the other hand gives a holistic view of the world. It involves cultural differences, employee
background, organizational functions, language, geographic and national borders.
Now I will be discussing the characteristics of the international leadership. The
leaders surviving in the international market should have deep self-awareness. The leaders
should be cautiously honest so that the interaction between the leader and the employees is
transparent and the employees should be well aware of the work objective and goals of the
organization (Boylan, 2016). The leader should also possess a global strategic thinking and
lifelong curiosity to know more, understand the strategies and workplace management
policies in order to maintain a healthy working atmosphere. The leaders should also be
dedicated which will help the leader to inspire the team members to work harder for
achieving the goals of the organization. The leader should also be sensitive to cultural
diversity so that he or she can respect the culture, beliefs and traditions of the place. The

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leader should also able to communicate efficiently in order to have a clear communication
with the employees in order to create any confusion or issue related to the work. Good
negotiation skills of the leader will also help him or her to make the deals of the business
easier and smoother.
Leadership can be beneficial for the organization if the leader is a focused leader.
Focused leaders usually have the tendency of keeping in mind all the minute details of the
organizational activities, which in turn help him or her in guiding the team members and
motivating them to work for their individual betterment and also for the betterment of the
organization. The focused leaders have immense self-control to have a overall control of the
various situations arising in the organization on a regular basis. The leaders also have the
quality of focusing on oneself which in turn helps him or her to improve the skills and the
knowledge that is required to guide the organization activities. The leaders also possess the
empathy triad which includes cognitive empathy, emotional empathy and compassionate
empathy. The characteristics of cognitive empathy will help the leader to understand the
emotional state of an employee, which is also called as the perspective taking. Emotional
empathy on the other hand, will help the leader to literally understand the other person’s
emotions alongside them, which will make the employees feel important to be a part of the
organization. Compassionate empathy is what everyone understands by empathy, which
means understanding the challenges, and pain faced by someone and in turn takes necessary
actions for helping the employees (Reid III et al., 2014). The focused leaders also have the
ability of building relationships with the lower-level and higher-level employees. They also
focus on new strategies and innovations to keep the organization up to date with the market
scenario.
International leaders practice few of the things to evaluate the emotionally agility.
They usually challenge any situation and come up with suitable solutions in order to mitigate

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the issues. Right after accepting the challenge, the leaders identify a thought, which will
guide them to resolve the matter. It is a very good quality of an international leader to be able
to figure out the root cause of the issue to be able to find appropriate solutions for the
situation. The leaders also identity a feeling which the situation evokes which also help the
leader to connect with the employees as it portrays the emotional quotient of the leader.
Out of all the leadership styles, blue ocean leadership plays a vital role in the
organizational development. Blue ocean leadership is thought as a service that the employees
in an organization either buy or do not buy. Every leader has their certain customers. They
are either the higher authorities to whom the leaders have to report or the followers who
needs guidance and support from the leaders. People in the organization should also
appreciate and co-operate with the ideas and strategies of the leader. In case of
disagreements, the customers disengage themselves in the organizational activities. In
following the blue ocean leadership the leaders should be well aware of the real situation of
the organization. A very common mistake, organizations make is by discussing the leadership
changes even before resolving the differences in the opinion over the activities of a leader.
The leaders following the Blue Ocean Leadership also institutionalize the new leadership
practices. Organizations then take the decision of distributing the agreed-on-to-be profiles to
the leaders at every level. The Blue Ocean Leadership Grid is an analytical tool that helps in
complementing the Leadership Canvas and helps the leaders in formulating the blue ocean
leadership profile that helps the leaders to unlock the unrealized energy and talents in the
organization (Finkelstein, 2016). The blue ocean leadership grid has four components like
eliminate, raise, reduce and create. In case of elimination, the leader is expected to eliminate
the issues of the organization by means of investing their time and energy. In case of raise,
the leader invest their intelligence and time to raising the organizational structure above the
present level. In case of reduction, the leaders invest their intelligence and time in reducing