IESE Insight

Cultural competence: Why it matters and how to get it

Some people may be intrinsically multicultural by birth, internalizing the values of more than one culture. Others may be experiencing multiculturalism as a feature of doing business internationally.Illustration: Leonard Beard
July 1, 2015
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Yih-Teen Lee

Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE. He specializes in cultural bridging and cultural identities, leading global collaboration and multicultural teams, and organizational fit and its dynamics across cultures. He identifies as a multicultural individual, delivering programs and seminars to senior executives in Chinese, English, French and Spanish.