Please describe some of the potential obstacles that a global leader may face that hinder them from connecting with other leaders across cultural borders.

Caribbean Team Vibes and Whatever! Karen Brown sat in her office and thought about her 20-year career at Bright Lights Corporation(BLC). Her success at BLC has been from her own efforts and management. She had improveddiversity for the team she led, launched new products and had taken on challenges which at timesseemed insurmountable. Recently, she and her colleagues were part of a team that launched anumber of products in the Caribbean region. The successful product launch had created a hugedemand for the company’s products that required BLC to establish and centralize a call center inTrinidad and Tobago. Karen was discouraged that, at the end of their first month of working together, the team members’call response average was a little over two minutes off target. She was also getting complaintsfrom the three Caribbean team members. They calculated that together the three spent an averageof five and a half minutes with each customer; when customers wanted further information,…

Caribbean Team Vibes and Whatever! Karen Brown sat in her office and thought about her 20-year career at Bright Lights Corporation(BLC). Her success at BLC has been from her own efforts and management. She had improveddiversity for the team she led, launched new products and had taken on challenges which at timesseemed insurmountable. Recently, she and her colleagues were part of a team that launched anumber of products in the Caribbean region. The successful product launch had created a hugedemand for the company’s products that required BLC to establish and centralize a call center inTrinidad and Tobago. Karen was discouraged that, at the end of their first month of working together, the team members’call response average was a little over two minutes off target. She was also getting complaintsfrom the three Caribbean team members. They calculated that together the three spent an averageof five and a half minutes with each customer; when customers wanted further information,…

Jealousy and envy clearly play a role in the conflict. Do you believe jealousy and envy play a role in leadership? How did Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., or another figure from the past or present respond to conflict?