This chapter discusses the mechanisms and controls in place to ensure consistency and accountability within a global organization. It covers topics such as input from global leaders into goals and compensation of national leaders, the selection process for the global management team, the role of consensus in decision-making, and resolving tensions between global and local perspectives.
In a global professional organisation, how do you achieve alignment across national offices? Empson outlines one powerful method – social control – and Morley explores his experience of leading partners through the process of global integration. They talk to
Philip Davidson, currently
Global COO of
KPMG about exercising power while walking the global/local tightrope.
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