ACTA study of global leaders identified expertise components including reading people closely, bridging cross-cultural communication, and perspective taking¶

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q2 i? Content and hierarchical task analyses of 20 Knowledge Audit interviews (over 30 hours of data) from global leadership experts identified expertise components including reading people closely, bridging cross-cultural communication, active listening, perspective taking, questioning parochial views, and coaching others to develop a global mindset. → Olivia Brown 2024

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Olivia Brown 2024¶

Olivia Brown, Nicola Power, and Julie Gore. (2024). Cognitive Task Analysis: Eliciting Expert Cognition in Context. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/10944281241271216

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The article reports this as the outcome of Osland et al.'s (2013) ACTA study: two coders independently conducted inductive content analysis of Knowledge Audit transcripts from over 30 hours of data with 20 interviews. Findings are qualitative and descriptive.

"The findings indicated that the expertise of global leaders included reading people closely, bridging cross-cultural communication, active listening, perspective taking, engaging in conscious questioning of parochial organizational views, and coaching others to develop a global mindset"

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