Interested if this is the style of your Collaboarative leadership!

Well, NOW that you say Panama instead of Latin America and therefore changed your argument. Also NOW that you say "very difficult to implement" instead of "impossible to implement", changing your argument completely, and therefore NOW that you say something completely different to what you originally said, NOW you could be right, or not, since its a different discussion, i don't know.

Coming back to your original point. Yes, i have lived and worked in various Latin American (not Panama) countries, and i have fund quite the opposite. So maybe, as you suggest, im not a "real Spanish person" (whatever that means).

Strange!! Every real Spanish person i spoke to in Panama (there's a lot of people from Spain there) said that Spain and Panama are culturally worlds apart. Question: did you ever work in Latin-America, especially countries with a Caribbean Culture, such as Panama? And yes, this model is very very difficult to implement. If not impossible the coming decade. I believe in this model, as in the Netherlands this is really the way to do it. Just saying it doesn't work for many countries, not yet.

I disagree. I live in Spain, culturally very similar to latin America, and this model works perfectly for my company (2 so far) and others i have seen apply it, although, perhaps, not many companies do. Maybe you mean that in Latin America, this model is more difficult to implement because of the bosses old ways in general, but to say "it doesn't work" and" I can't explain" really shows how you yourself are stuck in these old ways. So no wonder why you think like this.

I understand it feels like i'm just criticizing the IG. That's not my intention. I really can't explain cultural differences in a Disqus comment. It's too much, sorry. But there must be some good reading out there. Cultural Dimensions from Hofstede helped me a bit. Hope this helps.

Hi Paul,
Would be great if you could also share your thoughts as to why this is impossible in Latin America.

Not all of us work across the globe, so getting insight from people who are on the ground as to actual challenges, instead of a 'it just won't work' statement is a great way to collaborate.

Peter