In today's global business environment, it's easy to "put your foot in your mouth" with an expression or behavior that can be misinterpreted. In a very crowded store in Paris, one elderly woman bumped ...

In part one of two, I share some embarrassing cross-cultural misunderstandings from my time living in East Africa. Hear about two of the biggest ones– and what they taught me about the country, the ...

We all have an internal list of those we still don't understand, let alone appreciate. We all have biases, even prejudices, toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs ...

“My spouse and I come from different cultural backgrounds, with different perspectives, upbringings, and experiences. We love each other, but our biggest cultural divide is how we communicate. Since ...

In this decade characterized by highly complex transformation endeavors, where cross-cultural projects are the norm rather than the exception, project managers face an unprecedented challenge: ...

In a world where differences in civilizations, beliefs, and ideologies often give rise to skirmishes and warfare (see Samuel Huntington’s thesis, "The Clash of Civilizations"), sometimes as a result ...

As a teenager fresh from China, Zitong Jia never intended to become a social media phenomenon. She arrived in the United States at fifteen to attend high school, armed with curiosity and the everyday ...

Cross-cultural misunderstandings or differences People feeling slighted Bosses overlooking inequity Bad news breeding bad behavior Competition against your former team Conflicts crop up all the time ...