Cross Cultural Leadership Lessons Learned in the Operating Room - Dr. Neil Thompson of OMG International presents scenes from his experience in Asia

2. Cross Cultural Leadership
Lessons Learned in the Operating Room
Neil O. Thompson, MD FACS CCIH,
Medical Mission Advocate, OMF International Arlington, VA
www.us.omf.org, nthompson@omf.org June 2012

4. Thailand

6. Some of Our Thai
Friends

7. Thai
Food!

8. “To be Thai is to be Buddhist.”

9. Manorom Christian Hospital

10. Lessons Learned in the Operating Room

11. Mr. Sutee

12. Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges
好
= Yes, sure!
= Maybe (but we
don’t like
ambiguity)
= No, but I don’t
want you or I to
lose face.
“留面子”, 不要 “丢面子”

14. Our Great, Great, Great OR Team

16. Bibliography/ Leadership Library
Christian Reflections on Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner (ed.), Jossey
Bass, 2004
Cross-Cultural Servanthood, Duane Elmer, IVP Books, 2006
Death by Meeting, Patrick Lencioni, Jossey Bass, 2004
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, Jossey Bass, 2002
The Contribution of Medical Missions: The Intercultural Transfer of Standards and
Values, Christoffer H. Grundmann, in Academic Medicine (vol. 66, no. 12, p. 731),
1991.
Leadership as an Identity, Crawford W. Loritts, Jr., Moody, 2009
Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner, Jossey Bass, 1995
Leadership is an Art, Max De Pree, Dell Publishing, 1989; Crown Business, 2004
Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church, James
E. Plueddemann, IVP Academic, 2009
Leading with a Limp, Dan B. Allender, WaterBrook Press, 2006
Level 5 Leadership, Jim Collins, Harvard Business Review, January 2001
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis, Addison
Wesley, 1997
Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness,
Robert Greenleaf, Paulist Press, 1977, 2002
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, Simon & Schuster, 1989
Neil O. Thompson, MD FACS
Medical Mission Advocate, OMF International
CCIH, Arlington, VA
June 2012
www.us.omf.org, nthompson@omf.org