Steinbeis Beratungszentrum Global Mindset & Leadership

global mindset globalization stays an ongoing challenge for the management. many companies are already internationally oriented. anyhow in the future, entrepreneurs and executive managers will have to think and operate even more globally. companies can only stay successful in their markets, if their managers combine professional and cross-cultural competencies in a person. in particular, a global mindset is an important part of such cross-cultural competencies and characterizes the ability to understand and interconnect different cultures. the academic clarification of a global mindset is reasoned by the information based processing as part of the cognitive psychology. according to this, the difference relies in how international managers perceive and interpret their environment, leading to a decision-making process, to finally act meaningfully and in awareness of the cross-cultural context. the development of a global mindset takes thereby place on different levels: firstly on indiv