How Authority and Decision-Making Differ Across Cultures

HBR IdeaCast

• Episode: How Authority and Decision-Making Differ Across Cultures
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• Duration: 00:26:18
• Published: 2017-07-06 23:56

Erin Meyer, professor at INSEAD, discusses management hierarchy and decision-making across cultures. Turns out, these two things don’t always track together. Sometimes top-down cultures still have strong consensus-driven decision-making styles — and the other way around. Meyer helps break down and map these factors so that managers working across cultures can adapt. She’s the author of the article, "Being the Boss in Brussels, Boston, and Beijing" in the July-August 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.