Business

Learn to listen!
by Barbora Misakova

Raphael Kahane hold a conversation with Frank Brown, Dean of INSEAD. INSEAD or European Institute of Business Administration is an international and one of the world’s top graduate business schools. INSEAD with campuses in Fontainebleau (near Paris), Singapore and Abu Dhabi represents one-of-a-kind institution. With research center in Israel and office in the United States it is connecting nearly the whole world, and so contributes to fulfilling its basic philosophy. The school just celebrated its 50th anniversary what is “significant milestone” for any institution. In spite of the financial crisis Frank Brown said there is “still lot of demand for the program” (especially from North America and Canada) and that’s why they are “looking forward to a wonderful celebration and looking forward for another fifty years.” In the times hard like these Brown recommends not thinking about how much money we could make, but what impact and! influence on the society will we and our activities have? The basic philosophy not only Brown’s but INSEAD’s as well is: “surround yourself with people from very different perspectives, people that have different strengths than you do and listen to them.” According to Frank Brown the most important attribute of a leader is to be a good listener, who let others to help and participate on solving the problem. Traveling, trying to understand the world and the way it works, those are the basis of a good person, executive or national leader. “All business is at least multinational if not global” and lack of perspectives of other cultures and ways of thinking can lead to disaster. As he added: “The days of leaders as being the all knowing and totally commanding are gone.”

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