Whether conducting performance reviews or discussing specific issues, leaders, piers and even direct reports use numerous methods of sharing feedback, both positive and negative. We should always be aware of the personal preferences or expectations of the other person. Culture plays a major role in determining what those preferences and expectations are.....

I often meet people who tell me that intercultural training isn't necessary because "...deep down, all cultures are alike". One North American, whom I encountered on a train voyage, “Carl”, put it to me this way. “My strategy when interacting with people from different places is very simple. I am just nice.”....

In post fourth-wave Vietnam, Intercultural Diversity will be one of the mega-trends defining the new normal. International business deals and intergovernmental agreements continue to transform the economy and life here.....

On the anniversary of American Independence, InterX Global Director of Intercultural Services, John Knipfing discusses how individualists and adapt to collectivist societies.
Today is American Independence Day, an appropriate name for the national day of one of the most individualist cultures in the world. Southeast Asian cultures, on the other hand, are all collectivist...

The respected #CambridgeEnglishDictionary attempts to define #time as "the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc."
Around the world, cultures first developed in response to the needs of farming societies. The environments these societies inhabited forged the values, beliefs.....