Professor Andy Molinsky, who teaches a class on Organizational Behavior at Brandeis International Business School (IBS), is the author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process (Harvard Business Review Press 2013) , a book which aims to provide the skills, confidence and courage to operate effectively in unfamiliar foreign cultural situations. Featured in Fast Company , Molinsky explains what global dexterity means, and ways to use it to overcome challenges in the foreign workplace: “Global dexterity is the capacity to adapt your behavior, when necessary, in a foreign cultural environment to accommodate new and different expectations that vary from those of your native cultural setting.”
Related media hits:
- Interactive Quiz: Prof. Andy Molinsky has developed a tool to help diagnose your cultural gap
- ‘Cross-cultural cross-training’ by Andy Molinsky, featured in the Boston Globe (April 18 2013)
- ‘Andy Molinsky: How to Adapt to Cultural Changes in Foreign Countries’, Forbes (April 10 2013)
- ‘Academic view: Abroad minded’ by Andy Molinsky, The Economist