Dr. Mansour Javidan - Global Leadership

Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott Allen

Dr. Mansour Javidan is a multiple award-winning and bestselling author and executive educator whose teaching and research interests span the globe, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He is the Garvin Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.
Mansour is currently the Project Director and Principal Co-Investigator of GLOBE 2020, working with a team of 426 researchers studying culture change, leadership ideals, and trust dynamics. The project has received close to $1.5 million in funding and has completed data collection from over 60000 managers and professionals in 144 countries.
He has designed and taught executive development courses and workshops, conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in over 40 countries. Published in the best journals.
Mansour’s article on global leadership recently received the Decade’s Best Paper Award (2006- 2016) by the Academy of Management Perspectives. Dr. Javidan has been recognized by Stanford University as among the top 2% most cited scientists in the field of business and management in the world in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. He was also recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world. Mansour was awarded the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association.
He has designed and taught executive development courses and workshops, conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in over 40 countries. His publications have appeared in such journals as Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Leadership Quarterly.

A Quote From This Episode

• "One of the implications of living in such a diversity-rich environment is curiosity. Curiosity about how people do things? Why do they do things differently? This curiosity about how and why has been with me; it is in my genes."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Developing Your Global Mindset: The Handbook for Successful Global Leaders by Javidan
• Book: Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness in 24 Countries by Javidan
• Website: Globe Project
• Mansour Javidan - Google Scholar
  

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1. Influences on Global Leadership Research (00:00:00)

2. Global Leadership Research Findings (00:17:26)

3. Impact of Globalization and Digitization (00:26:22)

4. Managing Digital Transformation in Global Leadership (00:35:19)