Fons Trompenaars, who was recently awarded the coveted George Petitpas award by the World Federation of People Management, redefined our idea of leadership to include the ability to resolve competing cultural and business dilemmas and propel organisations forward.
In every culture in the world such phenomena as authority, bureaucracy, creativity, good fellowship, verification and accountability are experienced in different ways. The essence of culture is not what is visible on the surface. It is the shared ways groups of people understand and interpret the world. In every culture a limited number of general, universally shared human problems need to be solved. The problems are shared by mankind; their solutions are not and therefore allowing to distinguish one culture from another.
11:00 CET Welcome and Opening by EAPM Board Member Darko Petrovski
11:03 CET Fons Trompenaars
11:33 CET Q&A
11:43 CET Interactive Activity (Game)
11:57 CET Thank you and Closing
Alfonsus (Fons) Trompenaars is a Dutch organizational theorist, management consultant, and author in the field of ethics. Known for the development of Trompenaars’ model of national culture differences and Dilemma Theory.
Mr Trompenaars was nominated by the EAPM for the George Petitpas award on behalf of the Dutch HR Association (NVP).