How Authority and Decision-Making Differ Across Cultures

Published: July 6, 2017, 9:56 p.m.

Erin Meyer, professor at INSEAD, discusses management hierarchy and decision-making across cultures. Turns out, these two things don\u2019t always track together. Sometimes top-down cultures still have strong consensus-driven decision-making styles \u2014 and the other way around. Meyer helps break down and map these factors so that managers working across cultures can adapt. She\u2019s the author of the article, "Being the Boss in Brussels, Boston, and Beijing" in the July-August 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.