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May Africa, and the rest of the world, benefit from experiences elsewhere in the world so that we work in collaboration rather than exploitation, sustainability rather than quick profits. Sustainable cross-cultural collaboration is the path forward! Delete the scoop?
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Business management magazine, blogs, case studies, articles, books, and webinars from Harvard Business Review, addressing today's topics and challenges in business management.
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Research based on the Hofstede dimensions, though I don't see any citation. I've read the full report quite a while ago, but this presentation of the findings is interesting. Delete the scoop?
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YES to locally appropriate leadership and to giving credit to indigenous management techniques vs imposing western ones! Delete the scoop?
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Excellent article (in Spanish) re: what makes the difference to successful internationalization Delete the scoop?
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Video sobre los resultados de un estudio realizado por The British Council, Booz Allen Hamilton e IPSOS Relaciones Públicas, basados en los aportes de un gru... Delete the scoop?
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What’s the business case for diversity in the workplace? It’s less about what diversity adds, and more about what homogeneity takes away 
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I read a blog recently where the author, who has positioned himself as an expert, indicated groupthink was OK. I cannot think of a reason why. This article supports diversity of thoughts in organizations. Delete the scoop?
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Long before China developed into the country it is today, I spent a lot of time imagining how I would one day have an office there and collaborate between two teams of industrial designers and mechanical engineers located in Cleveland and China. Delete the scoop?
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Culture at Work: The value of intercultural skills in the workplace —A survey conducted by the British Council, Booz Allen Hamilton and Ipsos Public Affairs, of HR managers at 367 large employers i... Delete the scoop?
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As business classes get underway at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, MBA students open their laptops and professors fire up PowerPoint presentations in many classrooms.
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Mindfulness is also such an important intercultural competence. Delete the scoop?
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Which civilization will win and which will lose — the one based on fossil fuels or the one based on renewables? Delete the scoop?
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We’ve been sufficiently polluted by Lean and Six Sigma, and it’s time for them to go.
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Yes! Don't forget that cross-cultural competence REQUIRES diverging! As does innovation! Delete the scoop?
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I'm guessing you've heard of "One Billion Rising," a global action project to end violence against girls and women. They hold a mirror up to us that shows a reflection oh-so-difficult to own: that ...
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The economic and transformative, innovative potential of women worldwide is huge. Powerful video. Delete the scoop?
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Last week workers walked out in protest at Amazon's two largest distribution centers in Germany.
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Different legal and labor practices, and underlying it all are different worldviews, relationship expectations, views of society and business, and CULTURE. Delete the scoop?
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Iron Man 3 is breaking box office records around the world and is close to hitting $100 million in China.
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VERY creative global/local business balancing, it would seem! Delete the scoop?
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A problem often revealed too late for multinationals arriving in China is creation of a “globalised local team” in their offices.
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So important, particularly when heard from local sources on the ground. 
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and that workplace might not be in the same country as more and more teams work remotely across the world..... Delete the scoop?
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Business leaders of today face a high level of complexity. Globalization, technological evolutions, market shifts, an increased pace of change. These have changed the business landscape. Business e... Delete the scoop?
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With endless examples of ethics scandals, greed, and the disregard for treating employees as people, the time is ripe for surprising leadership that motivates employees and you. Employees, customers and you need encouragement.
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Yes!!! Delete the scoop?
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We can have viable, sustainable businesses AND healthy environments and employees. Let's all work together to make this happen! Delete the scoop?
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Another reason to reduce bias, build inclusion and cross-cultural collaboration now. Delete the scoop?
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Bravo, Hyundai!!!! Big business acting responsibly in the world, to promote human rights, to stand up for what is right, to end violence where possible. May we all focus on the human rather than on the money. Delete the scoop?
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This is a story, or perhaps, more correctly, a cautionary tale, about a very successful expatriate and the highly respected, much-envied western company for which he worked. It is a story that made... Delete the scoop?
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This is the sort of thing we need to work to stop, from the inside out and from the outside in. Local economies need support, heads of families need to be able to provide for their families, corporations need profits, AND we all need sustainability, environmental stewardship, and SAFETY. We all need to do what's right and create ways to achieve our needs/goals.
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Walmart, Gap, Macy’s, Sears/Kmart, JCPenney, VF Corp., Target, Kohl’s, Cato Fashions, Carter’s, Nordstrom, American Eagle Outfitters, The Children’s Place, Foot Locker