Why is important of showing compassion as a global leader, how might you engage in self-awareness to overcome personal differences that will allow you to overcome given global differences?

“That was the thing about French girls and German girls. There was not all this talking. You couldn't talk muchand you did not need to talk. It was simple and you were friends. He thought about France and then he beganto think about Germany. On the whole he had liked Germany better. He did not want to leave Germany. He didnot want to come home. Still, he had come home. He sat on the front porch.”  Why would Krebs not want to talk when he was in a war? Why would he not want to comehome?

What factors motivate a global leader towards organizational hubris or organizational humility with respect to sacrifice?

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,…