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As CEO of multinational law firm Hogan Lovells, Steve Immelt is steeped in diversity and attuned to being a strong manager.
“You have to understand the different cultural perspectives to be effective,” Immelt told FierceCEO. “Communication is very important.”
Immelt has been CEO since 2013 after joining the firm with different roles in 1998.
As CEO, Immelt is in a position of managing people in England, Germany, France and roughly 20 other countries.
“That was an eye-opener,” he said. “I came to appreciate pretty quickly that when you’re in that setting, your own views about how the world is set up go out the window. You really have to become a much better listener, and you learn that there are very different cultural lenses. You have to make sure that everybody who has something...