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[All of our local team leaders] can recite, without hesitating, what our company expects from a manager […] However, as my culture coach tells me, they don’t have our values under the skin. They are ambivalent when it comes to managing their own people.
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Zølner, M. (2012). Dilemmas of Expatriate Managers. In: Gertsen, M.C., Søderberg, AM., Zølner, M. (eds) Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026064_11
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