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## Segment 1 — tail1

## Article 108 — a108

# David Livermore

## David Livermore

**Role in this source:** *Author and sole cited authorial voice* of the HBR article this vault is built from. Every thesis-level claim and coined concept originates with him.

**Profile:** Founder of the **Cultural Intelligence Center**, director of the **Society of CQ Fellows**, and the **Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership** at Questrom School of Business, Boston University. His research focuses on how culturally intelligent (CQ) leaders navigate geopolitical, economic, and cultural tensions. (Enrichment: he is founder and president of the Cultural Intelligence Center and has authored books on leading across cultures and the economics of CQ; canonical reference is the Cultural Intelligence Center author page.)

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Coined framing: [[concept-hq-satellite-dynamic]], [[concept-time-zone-bias]], [[concept-decision-anchoring-in-strategy]], [[concept-asynchronous-information-engineering]]
- Claims: [[claim-proximity-over-expertise]], [[claim-input-timing-matters]], [[claim-reversing-direction-improves-outcomes]], [[claim-centralized-control-still-necessary]]
- Framework: [[framework-centralized-control-evaluation]]
- Contrarian insights: [[contrarian-overcommunication-flaw]], [[contrarian-where-not-who]]
- Action recommendations: [[action-require-regional-briefs]], [[action-shift-product-decision-origin]], [[action-establish-global-insight-councils]], [[action-engineer-asynchronous-flow]]
- Direct quotes: [[quote-where-decision-begins]], [[quote-where-you-sit]]

He cites [[entity-amos-tversky-daniel-kahneman]] (anchoring) and [[entity-tsedal-neeley]] (limits of communication frequency), and draws on case studies [[entity-meta-d108]], [[entity-mediora-health-systems]], and [[entity-unilever-d1]].