In this episode, I speak with Stuart Friedman about cross-cultural dynamics in efforts to better understand how we can improve our relationships. Culture as he defines it is “how things get done.” In understanding how others do things, [...]
Background Global Context helps organizations improve their relationships with clients and other businesses in different parts of the world by helping them understand how people in those regions communicate. The company offers training [...]
By Alina Dizik, 3 May 2016 If you want to get your point across in a meeting in Finland, keep quiet; and let your counterparts deliberate. Of course, that won’t work at all in, say, Canada. As more [...]
The Broadway musical phenomenon that is Wicked has become the very definition of defying gravity. Not only is it the 6th longest running Broadway musical of all times, it's been translated into 8 languages, performed in 15 countries, [...]
Imagine you’re on the way to dinner with a friend when he tells you he’d wait an hour at the restaurant if he knew it was for really great sushi. So you invest the time, finally get seated, [...]
When I was doing research for “The Truth About Lies in the Workplace,” I was disappointed not to find more studies on how culture influences our definition (and experience) of being told a lie. I wish I had [...]
If you missed last month's Business Insider article, These Diagrams Reveal How To Negotiate With People Around The World, and you do business with people from other countries, you owe it to yourself to [...]
Anyone who has spent time working with the Japanese knows that their thoughts, motivations, and priorities are often hidden from view. The Japanese are more likely to rely on non-verbal cues, and the context of what they [...]
