Leading with Cultural Intelligence David Livermore 's text Leading with Cultural Intelligence was required reading not only for the global business trip but also our Organizational Behavior and Change class. When reading for the Organizational Behavior and Change class, I appreciated the many differences that were explained in regards to time management between Chinese businessmen and German businessmen. However it was not until faced with the possibility of traveling to China did I begin to try to understand the reasons behind these differences.
Understanding that Cultural Intelligence or CQ, is a set of skills that facilitate …show more content…
Having an awareness of of one 's drive towards accepting differences can also benefit cultural intelligence (Livermore, 2010). Cultural knowledge requires one to be aware of how people in other cultures think and act, and how their core values interact to form the core of their basic needs (Livermore, 2010). Cultural Strategy requires one to actively think and adapt their behavior to plan for culturally diverse situations. This comes from one 's awareness to new culturally diverse situations, while making sure that one 's plans are effective (Livermore, 2010). Cultural action requires one to use behavior, both nonverbal and verbal to effectively communicate in culturally diverse environments (Livermore,