In Posner’s, It’s how leaders behave that matters, not where they are from, Posner studies leaders in India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The first thing that stuck out to me within this study is how he found similar results from leadership style success in every place he studied. Leadership qualities are cross cultural, in that it does not matter where you are from ethnically or socioeconomically, everyone has the ability to be a great leader. One aspect I found interesting about this study was that he studied both India and Pakistan and still found success to be similar between the two cultures. This is interesting to me because the two countries border one another and are cultural and even sometimes political foes (Brink). Although their differences, thought processes, and even actions towards one another could be argued as justified, in terms of the study, they found similarities. I think this speaks to humans in general when it comes to putting our differences aside. Even with two countries that have been in disagreements for years and years having similar leadership styles, we see that leadership stays the same. Another takeaway I had was from the encourage the heart leadership technique, which brings together a sense of community. I think these are cultures that intuitively have that quality within their culture, but we miss it within America. I hope that in the future, we can foster a way where we are more community centric, instead of individualistic. I think this is done by plugging into local community efforts, shortening the workweek, and having community centric spaces to encourage open discourse.

75 years on, India and Pakistan remain enemies. (2022, August 16). BRINK – Conversations and Insights on Global Business. https://www.brinknews.com/75-years-on-india-and-pakistan-remain-enemies/