Even if you lead a senior management team, it may happen that one of your colleagues will be difficult to deal with. If someone repeatedly uses inappropriate language or behaves in a very cantankerous way, usually HR can be asked to coach the person in question. However, is that enough?
Sometimes it may just happen that there is a difficult person on a company’s board of directors. Basically, in all countries, board chairs have the same fundamental objective, which is to lead the company and the board of directors. Their approach to this task, as well as to various other predicaments, depends amongst other things on national culture.
