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Blog / ChangeThis
Working Across Cultures and Knowing When to Shut Up
By Erin Meyer
"Today, whether we work with colleagues in Dusseldorf or Dubai, Braslia or Beijing, New York or New Delhi, we are all part of a global network (real or virtual, physical or electronic) where success requires navigating through wildly different cultural realities. Unless we know how to decode other cultures and avoid easy-to-fall-into cultural traps, we are easy prey to misunderstanding, needless conflict, and deals that fall apart. Yet most managers have little understanding of how local culture impacts global interaction. Even those who are culturally informed, travel extensively, and have lived abroad often have few strategies for dealing with the cross-cultural complexity that affects their team's day-to-day effectiveness. Often the cross-cultural challenges that arise could be avoided by learning a few basic principles. For example, the answer to the simple question, 'When should I speak and when should I be quiet?' varies dramatically from one culture to another."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Staff Picks
Good Enough for the #Girlboss
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Ironically, the reason I haven't had a chance to write a recommendation of #Girlboss, which released in May, is because I've been busy being a #girlboss.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Glass Cage
By Porchlight
Nicholas Carr writes beautiful, big-picture books on technology and culture. In The Glass Cage, his focus is on automation.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - How We Got to Now
By Porchlight
Not many writers can craft an engaging 250 page book around seemingly mundane subjects such as glass and freezing, but Steven Johnson can.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Happiness of Pursuit
By Sally Haldorson
Chris Guillebeau didn’t know he had set out on a quest to travel to every country in the world until he had traveled to the first 50.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Interviews
Jacob Morgan on Business and Books
By Porchlight
"Will we have employees in the future? Will employees work with robots? " ~Jacob Morgan
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Interviews
A Q&A with Jacob Morgan
By Porchlight
"Everyone always talks about the customer but in my opinion change must start from the inside first. . .
Categories: interviews
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Blog / Interviews
Jacob Morgan
By Porchlight
"[M]ost organizations and managers today focus on the amount of time that employees appear to spend doing something and not on what they actually produce. This has to change. Just because employees are “putting in hours” doesn’t mean anything.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 120
By Porchlight
Creating a Coaching Culture: A Playbook to Build Winning Business Teams by Nathan Jamail “In business, most of our employees are not as good as they could be—not because of our love for them or our desire to make their lives better than ours, but . . .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
Creating a Coaching Culture: A Playbook to Build Winning Business Teams
By Nathan Jamail
"Growing up, most of us had to learn how to defend ourselves and think for ourselves. And, if you were anything like me, you had to learn the hard way—paying the consequences for bad decisions (and, for me, there were many). As parents, we try to remove every struggle we endured growing up, so they don't have to struggle the way we did, and yet those hard times and struggles are most likely exactly what made us who we are today. It is our responsibility just to help see them through those struggles and help them learn and grow from them. The same can be said for business today. And, in business, most of our employees are not as good as they could be—not because of our love for them or our desire to make their lives better than ours, but for the exact opposite reason. It is because most of the time we think they are not worth the effort to really coach them."
Categories: changethis