Stumpf, Stephan A. with Mary Anne Watson, Hemant Rustogi, "Leadership in a Global Village: Creating Practice Fields to Develop Learning Organizations", 1994
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For a practice field to be of greatestvalue in developing global leadership capability, it needs to be constructed soas to combine meaningful cultural and national issues with realisticinterpersonal dynamics. This paper examines how two practice fields designed tofacilitate systems thinking and organizational learning Foodcorp, Internationaland Globalcorp accomplish this task. Both are management development toolscalled behavioral simulations (not computer simulations) each creates arealistic context, a micro world, for people to interact on business and globalissues. Both can be used to: (1) surface cultural assumptions in a socialbusiness context where they can be observed, tracked, and discussed relative tovarious effectiveness criteria; (2) create a team capable of performing with ashared vision and common mental models; and (3) develop leaders who can createas well accommodate micro cultural norms.