REACH Interview Series: Tom Kolditz

Dec 15, 2017

Tom Kolditz had quite a few things to say about leadership! Currently, the founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, Tom is a retired Brigadier General, who led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years and was also Director of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management. And if that isn’t enough, among his many national and international accomplishments, Tom also happens to be an expert skydiver who served 10 years as the senior instructor for the West Point Sport Parachute Team.

A Common Language Doesn’t Equal a Common Culture

“Finally,” you think to yourself as you board the plane to London for a series of business meetings with the British subsidiary of your American corporation.

Many of us have lived, worked, or studied abroad, and if you haven’t, you’ve certainly read one of the many articles describing cultural differences.

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REACH Interview Series: Mitch Joel

The Reach Interview Series is an informal dialogue between Andy Molinsky and respected thought leaders about the challenges of stepping outside your comfort zone, especially in the process of developing yourself as a leader.

Most of us want to be creative – and probably much more creative than we are right now.

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