2024年3月22日发(作者：)

——·米德尔顿(Julia Middleton)来说，文化智商是一个很重要的问题。米德尔顿是伦

敦非营利机构“共同目的〞(Common Purpose)的创始人，该机构致力于培养领导力。在

全球化的世界，人们正努力成为领导者并理解他人，基于对这一事实及其重要性的思考，

米德尔顿撰写了?文化智商?(Cultural Intelligence)“跨国领导者的竞争力〞5(Harvard

University)管理实践教授威廉·W·乔治(William W. George)的启发，“他跳过了对文化智

商的传统学术认识，给了它一个合理的全球视角。〞

Together with Ronald Arculli, a political and cultural figure in Hong Kong and

the chairman of Common Purpose Hong Kong, Ms. Middleton in a written

interview talks about C.Q., the “flying dead,〞 how people who only speak

English are missing out, and how China, a place that traditionally has been inward

looking, could fit into the paradigm. All answers are from Ms. Middleton, unless

marked “R.A.〞 for Mr. Arculli.

米德尔顿与香港的政治和文化名人、共同目的香港分会主席夏佳理(Ronald

Arculli)“飞尸〞(flying dead)

Q. Can you define for us “cultural intelligence〞? How did you develop

your idea and what does it promise?

问：你能给我们定义一下“文化智商〞吗？你如何产生了自己的观点，文化智商会带

来什么？

A. Cultural intelligence, in my view, is the ability to cross divides and thrive in

multiple cultures.

答：在我看来，文化智商在于跨越界限，在不同文化中茁壮开展的能力。

I developed the idea from my father, who was a trader and traveled extensively.

He saw more and more leaders starting to join him on the planes. He used to

worry that the world would be run by these leaders, who called themselves global

simply because they traveled, but were what he called the flying dead — leaders

who travel constantly, touching down frequently and who are expected to deliver

with no real idea where they are, who quantify their C.Q. in air miles. Instead, they

should be the bridge builders of the world, making it more coherent.

我是从父亲的经历中萌发出的这种想法。他是一名交易员，去过很多地方。他发现飞

机上出现了越来越多的领导者。他曾经担忧，我们的世界就掌控在这些领导者手中。就因

为到过很多地方，他们就自认为很国际化，但实际上，我父亲把他们叫做“飞尸〞——频

繁地出差、抵达世界各地，却根本不了解自己所到的地方，只会用飞行里程来量化文化智

商。而他们本来应该成为在这个世界搭建桥梁的人，让世界更有凝聚力。

When I started writing this book, I knew C.Q. was important. Now that I’ve

finished, I think I underestimated its importance. I think C.Q. will define the winners:

the winning leaders; the winning cultures; the winning cities and the winning

countries. What will cause them to thrive and ultimately succeed will be their

ability not simply to cope with, but fully to benefit from, the heterogeneous nature

of organizations and society.

Ultimately, I think C.Q. is about openness; a refusal to lock yourself in your own

culture, behind a door you refuse to open; a belief that other cultures will enrich