The World’s Worst Cultural Mistakes
Expat Daily News has just posted their list of the World’s Worst Cultural Mistakes, and The Economist just listed the definitive How to Behave on an Airplane. Along with remembering which hand to...
View ArticleIdeas Are Not Supreme
Illustration by Peter Oumanski “This American Life” is one of my favorite radio/internet programs. Fascinating, entertaining, informative…it’s a story based show that looks at American life in the...
View Article“Cultural Awareness Eases Expatriate Assignments”
RW3 CultureWizard has formed an alliance with Mercer, a global leader in human resource consulting, to help international assignees with a new product, CulturalTrainingPassport™....
View ArticleHow to Listen for “No” in India
A short, intercultural dialogue (inspired by, and integrating the strategies from, this article on Accelerance) Mark: Chief Technology Officer of a Seattle-based education company Raj: Project manager...
View ArticleCultural Training for NYPD
It’s pretty well understood these days that countries are diverse. Regionalism can often make the north and south, east and west feel like entirely different countries (does anyone know an Italian, or...
View ArticleHow to Beat the Homebound Blues
So, you thought taking that overseas assignment was a necessary, albeit challenging, step up the corporate ladder? Well, think again. According to a recent article from the BBC, your time spent abroad...
View ArticleCultural Reaction to Catastrophe in Japan
The impossible-to-imagine three-pronged catastrophe hitting Japan right now is almost too much to take in. Yet, we do try to take it in; to make sense of it, and in some ways we share this global...
View ArticleCultureWizard Digest, Issue #36
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard...
View ArticleWorking With Africans
Geremie Sawadogo of the World Bank surveyed 200 international aid workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and found the top cultural challenges to be: 1) the way time is used and perceived, 2) hierarchy and...
View ArticleInternational Assignments: Then & Now
Read Charlene Solomon’s article in MOBILITY magazine, “International Assignments: Then & Now”. RW3 CultureWizard
View ArticleCultureWizard Digest, Issue #47
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard...
View ArticleA Mythic and Heroic International Assignment
I just read this Reuters article about how nearly half the workers around the world (varying a bit by country) would consider living and working abroad. The article in itself was fairly interesting,...
View ArticleStability, Key Concern for China
Given centuries of turmoil in China, today’s leaders will do everything in their power to preserve stability. Whenever I have doubts about a potential Chinese policy shift, I examine the options...
View ArticleUntranslatable Expressions
Lost in Translation Do you ever reflexively spring to use a word in a foreign language when you can’t think of anything adequate in your mother tongue? Well, that may not happen to many of us, but this...
View ArticleChina’s Youth, A Lost Generation?
Avril Liu, 22, graduate student, Guangxi province. Photo by Adrian Frisk. Read this New Yorker story on the confused, uncertain attitude youth in China have on life in a swiftly evolving period in...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals Global Employees Not Prepared for Virtual Teamwork
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 84% of Global Employees Not Prepared for Today’s Work Requirements Study shows virtual work poses significant challenges to a majority of corporate employees NEW YORK, NY –...
View ArticleThe State of Intercultural Training in 2012
Read Sean Dubberke’s MOBILITY magazine article by clicking here. All employees of global organizations are candidates for intercultural training, and the article highlights the methods and strategies...
View ArticleIndirectness As Seen through the Eyes of a Direct Communicator
The 7 Ways an Indian Programmer Says No made me chuckle because of its broad applicability. Indirect communication is common in Asia, the Middle East, Latin / South America and many Mediterranean and...
View ArticleA President and his Girlfriend
Credit: Sipa via AP Images While France’s (new) President Hollande has lived with his partner Valerie Trierweiler since 2007, they aren’t married nor do they plan to do so from what the media has told...
View ArticleCross-Cultural Clumsiness
Dr. Paula Caligiuri, an RW3 CultureWizard business partner, contributed an article in FastCompany on avoiding the sometimes clumsy, awkward and unproductive situations you might find yourself when...
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