As your firm begins to grow, the need for more global competencies increases. This is even more important, as your company’s headquarters has decided to forge an alliance with a local company for expansion and further product development.

A) For such a venture, which of the global leadership competencies are most important, and how would you develop them for your group, as they begin to work in a new team dynamic with this joint venture?

B)What are the possible fault lines in this new arrangement and how can you help your chosen leader manage them, so they do not cause rifts, which negatively affect the company? You also know that diversity can foster competitive advantage, but only if it is accompanied by inclusion. This is often difficult because people tend to be ethnocentric about working with people who are not “like them.”

C) How do you help your chosen leader understand this, so he or she can implement such changes and overcome the resistance that the workers have with “outsiders?