“Welcome to the human Network”

Introduction

I decided to speak about my last internship in an international company: Cisco Systems. Last year I was in London during three months in Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems is an American multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services. In my internship I was part of a finance team composed of 6 members who comes from different nationalities. The first one was Juan-Pablo Brockman, he is Mexican and he was the manager of the team. Then there were Bhavani Girish, she is Indian and she was my manager. The rest of the team was composed of Andy Smith (English), Cem Oztoprak (Turkish), and Olga Syasina (Russian). Finally, Philippe Dumont (French) was directly in contact with the team because he is the man who relies the finance information with the sales department.
Throughout this brief description we can see that the team is very diversified and it turned out to be a mix of culture which it was actually more interesting. The leadership is a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. We will try throughout this assignment to highlight the leadership and the culture that I learned in my own experience.
In this assignment, in a first part we will describe characteristics which allow the leader of the team Juan-Pablo to manage, and evaluate if his leadership is efficient, in a second part, we will see if his management can be adapted to a Swedish company, and then to finish in a third part I will give my point of view about his leadership.

Schema

Here you can see a schema which can help you to understand how the team is composed:

It was essential to describe a little bit the environment in which I worked before speaking about the cultural diversity in the management.

The leadership

Now, let's start speaking about the analysis of the differences of culture.