Since there is no consensual agreement on the terms leadership or culture, it would seem impossible to define the term cross-cultural leadership. Yet, as discussed earlier, definitions of culture and leadership each share common themes. To the terms leadership and culture, we now add cross. The "cross" in "crosscultural leadership" refers to the leader's (the influencer) culture being different from the follower's (influence target) culture. By combining the thematic definitions of "leadership" and "culture" with the qualifier "cross," we define cross-cultural leadership as "the ability of an individual (the leader) to intentionally and unequally influence and motivate members of a culturally different group toward the achievement of a valued outcome by appealing to the shared knowledge and meaning systems of that culturally different group." In reviewing this definition, it becomes clear that what separates cross-cultural leadership from simple leadership are the words "culturally different." What separates simple leadership from crosscultural leadership is the need for leaders to consider the implications of the differences in the knowledge and meaning systems of their followers and to incorporate these differences into the influence process