The hosts introduce the topic of achieving alignment across local offices in a global organization and discuss the tension between individual autonomy and the desire to belong to a social group.
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.