How do you adapt your style to different cultures and views of authority?

Ah. Not for me.Okay.Being a leader versus being a manager.

How do you adapt your leadership style to different cultural backgrounds and different views of authority?

These are all challenging questions, and it's no coincidence that the crown,the royal symbol, was attached.

Because, often, it's been said that,culturally, when a kingdom was conquered,the real problem was figuring out how to rule it. That was the hardest part.

Getting there was easy, but staying was complicated.

But leaving aside the metaphor, so to speak, the historical theme is that we must embrace one of the main characteristics of leadership, which is partly, even in this case, management, which in my opinion, are truly different situations.

When we talk about leadership, we are actually talking about natural talents. The kind that comes with knowing how to be. Which can certainly be trained but they're really about personal values.

Management skills, on the other hand, can be learned. It's more about a system for managing resources and people.

The thing is, when you step into a new environment, especially a new country,you're dealing with people who have a totally different background from yours.

Who have grown up differently, who use words differently, who have different relationships, you have to approach them with respect and tread lightly.

That's the first thing.Very often, leadership is misunderstood as a kind of omniscience in which you You arrive and say, "Well, since I'm here, I've seen the whole world, I know everything.

What needs to be done, and now I will teach you how to work and how to live." It is clear that this approach will not work.

Maybe it worked a few years ago in a different cultural context where even your team had more of hierarchical view of work.

Today, in fact, this does not work.If you want people to listen to you, you have to give them a reason to why they should listen.

So it's complicated enough in your own country, but it gets even more complicated when you're dealing with different cultures and people.

And if Italian or Latin culture is used to this kind of situation.

Historically, there has been a political ease in managing power relations. In other cases, the approach is more transactional,not so focused on position, but competitive advantage.

If we can call it that.So every conversation becomes almost like a negotiation.

So there is no magic formula, and if there is, it's best not to trust it because it definitely won't work.

I think that the key is to listen, try to do something, see how people react, and continue or adjust based on what works.

It all starts with the desire to do it, and the right attitude to say, "I am this, you are something else, I am no better, you are no better, there is no one else, we're not having a competition to see who's right and who's wrong." It is the evil of modern society.

It's a situation in which we just have to say to ourselves, "Okay, this is who I am and I'll tell you about it. Is this who you are?

Will you share that with me? Can I really listen to you?" And understand how we can work better together, understand what is important for you and what is important to me.

And if we meet in the middle there is space to build genuine relationships.

If there were a flag in this country with the words do this and in that country, do that, it would be easier.

As I mentioned earlier, there are certain traits that can help you, things you can prepare for and study.

The rest is down to willingness and an attitude towards listening and paying attention to others.