Managing Internationally
In one of our LEAD classes this past week we discussed global-local tension within Vodafone and had a strong disagreement about what was most “efficient” for a company: allowing certain business lines to run themselves with a decentralized model via a local-first leadership style, or centralizing nearly all operations with a global-first leadership style. I think we weren’t really disagreeing at all, and in fact I think we could agree it depends on the situation. And for that, I have a framework.