Leaders don’t all walk and talk the same. Staying true to one’s culture is integral to empowered leadership.
Li Huang vividly recalls her first impression of a particular junior-high English teacher in her native city of Xi’an, China.
On the first day of class, Li says, the foreign-born teacher “sat down, putting his feet up on the desk…” In talking with the teacher months later, she found out that, although committing an obvious Westerners’ faux pas in the eyes of his East Asian students, “He felt a great sense of authority when he was striking that pose.”
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