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Emotional stability
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Open to experience
Emotional stability is an adaptable universal mechanism that allows people to deal with stress. As stress is often associated with ambiguous and unknown situations, emotional stability becomes essential for global leadership.
For global leaders, the ability to correctly assess a social environment is more complex, as the global context provides ambiguous social traces or those more difficult to fathom. Those persons more open to change have fewer rigid viewpoints regarding what is right and wrong, adequate and inadequate, etc. Therefore they are more likely to accept different cultures.
Source: “Developing Global Leaders�, Paula Caligiuri. Human Resource Management Review, 219-228, 2006.