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10reasonstocheer<br />
About 30 participants attend the November 2012 First Tuesday gathering in Taiwan. Taipei chapter leader Shao-Ping Paul Pan ’05 says guests<br />
included alumni from 1985 to 2012. Smaller or more dispersed chapters such as the one in Taipei sometimes meet less <strong>of</strong>ten or on weekends,<br />
but the atmosphere remains uniquely <strong>Thunderbird</strong> in all 171 alumni chapters.<br />
CHRIS KUO ’06<br />
5<br />
FIRST TUESDAYS: T-birds all over the<br />
world keep their calendars open for<br />
First Tuesdays. The tradition, which<br />
spread from Florida in 1980, brings<br />
alumni together each month for networking<br />
and fun.<br />
<strong>Thunderbird</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., leads the Najafi Global Mindset<br />
Institute.<br />
KRISTEN JARCHOW<br />
6<br />
GLOBAL MINDSET INVENTORY: To<br />
help global managers succeed in unfamiliar<br />
environments, <strong>Thunderbird</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers<br />
a range <strong>of</strong> solutions at the Najafi<br />
Global Mindset Institute led by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Mansour Javidan, Ph.D. A scientific<br />
self-assessment called the Global Mindset<br />
Inventory provides a starting point.<br />
The tool, developed at <strong>Thunderbird</strong>,<br />
has helped more than 15,000 managers<br />
since 2008 measure their strengths<br />
and weaknesses in nine global business<br />
categories.<br />
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