Charles Hampden-Turner

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Charles Hampden-Turner, is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, is the author of Charting the Corporate Mind and Corporate Culture: Vicious and Virtuous Circles.

He received an MBA and a DBA from the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, after studying history at Cambridge. From 2002-2005 he was the Goh Tjoe Kok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was the Cambridge University Hutchinson Visiting Scholar to China in 2003 and toured Chinese Universities at the invitation of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, as an Honorary Fellow of Arts and Business. He is a past recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefellerfellowships and a past winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award.

Since 1991 and a consulting supervisor for the Institute for Manufacturing at their School of Engineering. He is co-founder of an Amsterdam based consultancy on cross-cultural communication, Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner, acquired by KPMG in 2002, but bought-back, post-Enron. He is the author of 17 books, four with Fons Trompenaars, including "Riding the Waves of Culture" which has passed 180,000 copies world wide and "Maps of the Mind" which sold over a 100,000 copies and was a "Book of the Month Club for Science" selection.

He is a pioneer of dilemma theory, or paradox theory, which he devised in 1974 in a half-way house for ex-convicts in San Francisco. He joined Shell in the 1980s at the height of its scenario practice and introduced a methodology that strengthened the thought processes leading from scenarios to strategy. In turn, this led to his partnership with Fons Trompenaars, an innovator in understanding and measuring cultural differences, using methods he and Geerd Hofstede developed.

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His co-authored various works on culture with Fons Trompenaars include.

• 21 Leaders for the 21st Century : How Innovative Leaders Manage in the Digital Age (2005)

This book surveys a variety of leaders, not only in traditional business, whose acumen at reconciling opposing cultural values and dilemmas has led to personal and organizational success. Although the stories originate all over the world, most of the leaders are from Europe and the tone with which they describe their accomplishments—and in some cases their failures—differs from standard U.S. success stories.

• Managing People Across Cultures (2004)
• Mastering the Infinite Game: How East Asian Values are Transforming Business Practices (2001)
• Building Cross-Cultural Competence : How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values (2000) (with David Lewis)

reports on a series of long-term studies that integrate Fons’s deep statistical research with Charles’s subtle conceptual analysis.

• Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (McGraw-Hill 1997)
• Seven Cultures of Capitalism (1994)

His other books include:

• The Titans of Saturn : Leadership and Performance Lessons from the Cassini-Huygens Mission (2005) (with Bram Groen)
• Strategies for a New Britain
• Creating Corporate Culture: From Discord to Harmony (1992)
• Charting the Corporate Mind (1990) (with Ronnie Lessem)
• Gentlemen and Tradesmen (RKP 1983)
• Maps of the Mind (Macmillan 1982)
• Differential Diagnosis & Treatment in Social Work (1976)
• From Poverty to Dignity: A Strategy for Poor Americans (1974)

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From a review by Napier Collyns of GBN (Global Business Network) of the book "21st leaders of the 21st century": "Charles has a highly original mind that finds expression through a combination of words, pictures, and diagrams, most famously in Maps of the Mind (Macmillan,1981). This approach was ideally suited to his most significant invention—the reconciliation of dilemmas."

From MIT’s Ed Schein, “The model of reconciling seemingly conflicting values is…beautifully illustrated with cases and stories.”

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