跨文化交流与未来亚洲商业精英的成长

 

海德思哲国际咨询公司的全球CEO Kevin Kelly 先生名为“Tomorrow’s Asian CEOs”的主题演讲，3月26日在友邦堂如期举行。他作为海德思哲公司亚洲区合伙人在亚洲工作生活了八年，曾经对日本事务进行了深入的研究，近期主要的研究主题为未来全球经济中亚洲商业人才的成长和挑战。

海德思哲国际咨询公司是全球著名的高级管理人才搜寻和企业领导咨询服务公司，提供的服务包括人才管理、建立董事会、高管人员适应 (executive on-boarding) 和并购效益。50多年来，该公司一直致力于高品质服务，并通过与全球客户和个人建立的关系打造强大的企业领导团队。

Kevin Kelly 先生站在未来发展的角度，结合自身对亚洲经济的研究和分析，与我们分享了未来亚洲商业精英应当具备的性格特征，未来的商业精英将要遇到的挑战和机遇以及他们所要掌握的必要的技巧和能力。随着世界经济的全球化进程，更多的跨国公司来到亚洲、进入中国，不同肤色、不同文化背景的人才在同一组织中工作。Kevin Kelly 先生提出，跨文化交流成为未来亚洲商业精英必然面对的挑战。了解不同的文化，掌握必要的交流技巧，运用恰当的表达方式，调动全体雇员的士气与热情，都将促进未来亚洲商业精英走向成功，创造更多的商业奇迹。

Q&A环节中同学们积极的提问，充分表达了复旦MBA同学追求成功的渴望和自信；Kevin Kelly 先生结合自己的生活和职场经验，详细解答了复旦MBA同学在职场发展中的疑问和困惑。最后，在同学们热烈的掌声中，复旦大学管理学院院长陆雄文向Kevin Kelly 先生赠送了纪念牌，并再次向Kevin Kelly 先生发出真挚的邀请。

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Voice from the audience:

Tonight’s distinguished speaker, Mr. Kevin Kelly spoke with great passion on the focus of looking for a senior executive for a corporation. His ideology or concept of traits that a good senior executive should have, started with a brief history of a war battle between the French and the English. What made it interesting was that he laid the foundation the rest of his speech. In this era where globalization takes precedence over many other factors, a senior executive should accept that boundaries almost no longer exist in the business world. In light of corporations gaining market share through expansion, Mr. Kelly mentioned that there is an intractable dilemma that corporations all over the world are in demand of mid-level managers to senior executives. In light of this, Mr. Kevin Kelly stated that a senior executive should have these certain traits or possess these attributes in order to further advance ourselves in our career path:

What was also intriguing was the topic that was touched on briefly tonight during the Q&A session. That they were the EQ & SQ pointers. For someone to climb up the corporate ladder, he or she must possess these two quotients besides IQ, and I thought that it was a pity that we didn’t have a chance to discuss those two points further.

All in all, it was a good speech and it was another great opportunity to be able to attend this speech.

Andrew Luo (罗家荣)

Today, Mr. Kelly gave us a wonderful speech. I am really deeply impressed by his sagacity and eloquence. Other than other speakers, he put up some questions for us to think about at the end of speech. One of them is whether one should remain in the same company for decades to achieve sustainable development or change the jobs frequently to seek for more opportunities and diversified working experience. In my point of view, neither of them is completely right or wrong. Ambitious people are never willing to be ordinary and want to seize opportunities by switching the jobs. Yet once they make up their mind to start their own career in one company, they should pay long term endeavor in that company to achieve sustainable development till hit the career ceiling. After all, success can not easily be reached by frequent switch of jobs. Therefore, the answer depends on your own situation which will make you to achieve easier access to your final career goal.   

                                                          Justin Wang (王露露)

According to Mr. Kevin Kelly, CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International Inc, innovation, distinct advantage, communication, motivation and keeping morale within a firm are all the attributes concerning the leadership of tomorrow’s CEOs. How to keep talents in a time of globalization? For a firm as to talents, paying fairly is not enough, and keeping learning curve steep other than flat matters.

 Paul Wang(王晓辉)

With reference to the famous battle of Agincourt by King Henry V, to look for and obtain more market shares is described by Mr. Kelly to be a challengeable task for executives. However business differentiated a lot from the physical battle. What the executives need to do is not just to lead troops into an emerging market, but to localize their management. While for an executive to grow up locally, it's not adequate to possess language skills and local culture knowledge. A high emotional intelligence is one of valued merits, including social networking and informal relationship building ability. Meanwhile effective communication capability across cultures is a must for a multi-cultural management position. Mr. Kelly suggested that MBA students need expose to the international culture to achieve a global view and try whatever now to get more knowledge about different cultures and industries.

Annya Hua（华朝霞）

The topic of Mr. Kevin Kelly’s speech “Tomorrow’s Asia CEO” is almost every audience’s dream. His sense of humor, wisdom and passion moved these young MBAs. For me, I have clearer direction for my study and career life. Just try your best to fulfill your great dreams.

                                                      Tiffany Cui（崔智慧）

Today Mr. Kelly described the necessary characteristics that leading Asian CEOs should have. I agree that distinct advantage, communication skill, innovation are the most important characteristics, because the first one enable you to be more valuable, the second one make you communicate with the headquarter more efficiently and the last one render you manage the business more successfully.

What is the most interesting thing is that Mr. Kelly did not end his lecture as other speakers but ask us, the listener, questions. Mr. Kelly render us make a choice: serving company in a long period or collecting a bunch of working experience.

Obviously the question is about the loyalty and the long-term development of employee. I concede that generally frequent job-hopping of employee does harm to the development of a company and the employees themselves. Actually as we all know, most of the companies a