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Cultural Configuration: Understanding People Beyond Stereotypes
(In addition to this article, you can find the video of a talk I gave on this topic behind this link) One of the most common mistakes in multicultural collaboration is assuming that culture is simple. We reduce people to national stereotypes, generational labels, or corporate clichés. We do this not because we are narrow-minded, but because it is cognitively efficient. Stereotypes give us shortcuts. But shortcuts also make us blind. In my work across more than twenty countrie

Olivier Lazar
Apr 3010 min read


When Governance Forgets Its Purpose
Over the past several months, in a series of articles and reflections on Ethical Leadership, I have returned again and again to a question that has become increasingly important to me, not only as a matter of leadership theory, but as a matter of organizational survival: what happens when the systems that are supposed to protect integrity gradually begin to consume the very purpose they were created to serve, and when governance, rather than cultivating responsibility, initia

Olivier Lazar
Apr 309 min read
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