Having a GLOBAL MINDSET is an invaluable asset for an international business leader. With such a GLOBAL MINDSET, goal setting and decision making in cross-border environments become more instinctive and much more effective and efficient. Such a situation usually results in higher sales, profits, and valuations for the company. Ideally, a person with a GLOBAL MINDSET can assess opportunities and threats in local and overseas settings with decision making based on an intercultural understanding that is so ingrained that it is almost instinctive. With fewer global MINDSETS, cross-cultural and cross-institutional decisions require more effort and explicit reflection on such differences. The core competencies of an internationally active manager in a global mindset include intercultural qualities, knowledge, attitudes, convictions or values. In addition to necessary personality traits such as openness, curiosity or cultural understanding, interpersonal processes are also required in order to get an internationally or globally reliable manager. These include, among other things, emotional resilience and sensitivity or mental adaptability and flexibility, which are essential success factors on an international level. Broken down to intercultural (global mindset) competencies, the cognitive and affective (emotional) behavior level in particular is influenced by these processes.