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I'm particularly interested as an international who did my undergraduate degree in the US and is currently working in management consulting. Would be great to hear thoughts from Asians/Asian Americans who've gone through the process or from non-Asians who have a view of this issue and have experience to share.

Whenever you walk into corporate world you walk with your personalities and traits you grew up.
1. An isolated population is likely to become more introverted and inward focused through the generations as bolder individuals are more likely to choose to emigrate: A recent series of studies conducted with islanders resident in several isolated Italian archipelagos put these principles to the test. Andrea Ciani at the University of Padova and his colleagues found that islanders are less extraverted and open-minded, but more conscientious and emotionally stable, than their mainland neighbours located 10 to 40 miles away. Supporting this, a sample of recent emigrants from the islands to the mainland were found to score higher on extraversion and openness than the remaining islanders. Ciani's team also genotyped a sample of islanders and mainlanders and found that a version of a gene previously associated with risk-taking was less common among islanders. The researchers said this suggests there is “some genetic basis for the observation that individuals in long-isolated communities exhibit a particular personality type”. Experts have also speculated that differences in climate could influence regional differences in personality, such as cold regions with a lack of sunlight contributing to greater emotional instability.
2. Living in a crowded environment leads us to adopt a more future-oriented mindset, such as investing more in long-term relationships: Whatever the causes, once regional differences in personality are established, one possibility is that they may become self-perpetuating as there is evidence that people are drawn to live in areas occupied by others with similar character profiles to their own. Given how important personality traits are to life outcomes at the individual level – from wellbeing to career success – this issue of national differences in personality is arguably more than a lively conversation topic for a dinner party. Any cross-cultural differences in trait levels at the national level might contribute to, or at least reflect, international differences in such things as wealth, happiness, corruption, innovation, and health. Higher-trait neuroticism, for example, is strongly associated with numerous negative health outcomes, including mental health diagnoses like anxiety and depression, but also chronic physical conditions like heart disease and dementia. It stands to reason that in countries where average trait neuroticism is higher, citizens will be more vulnerable to physical and mental ill health. Personality differences around the world might even have contributed to the emergence of different political systems. Although we can’t conclude that more of this personality trait in a national population causes democracy , Barceló believes this is certainly plausible and that part of the reason is that open-minded citizens are more motivated by self-expression and less by traditional values. “Societal personality differences may play a larger role in predicting a country’s democracy than previously realized,” he said. At the very least, the findings on international differences in personality could be another reason for us to question our assumptions about other countries’ attitudes and behaviours. As the personality psychologist Richard Robins commented in 2005, this line of research suggests that “in contrast to personality traits – which reflect actual differences in the way people think, feel and behave – stereotypes about national character seem to be social constructions designed to serve specific societal purposes.
Although humility is a universal virtue, it is also quite rare. When we appoint humble people to leadership roles, they are less likely to damage their teams and organizations. In fact, even narcissistic leaders will be able to exert a positive influence on their teams and organizations when they have some humility. We would probably not value humility as much if we had it in abundance. Or perhaps the bigger issue is that while we do like and value humility, we are more seduced by charisma, confidence, and arrogance.

Therefore, we often end up selecting incompetent men over competent women for leadership roles. If you are too assertive, you will end up being less likable, and if you are self-critical, humble, and caring, you will not be leadership material. In reality, the very trait that we like to revere may end up hindering career success because we are more likely to punish humility than reward it, even if we still like the idea of successful people being humble. Here are three signs that humility may be working against you in your career.
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