Culture – when I hear the word I envision a petri dish in a biology lab. Recently I bumped into a former work colleague at a social function. I asked him how his new job was going. He said, “Great – the culture is totally different from where I worked prior”. Our paths crossed at […]

Cultural intelligence is one of the key soft skills necessary to get along with people from diverse cultures. This soft skill is very vital to succeed in the 21st Century if you live, work, and do business with people from different cultures. With the opportunity to meet, interact, and work with diverse people comes the […]

The concept of ‘culture’ has various meanings and definitions. One such definition is as follows: culture refers to “customary beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also: the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time” (Merriam-Webster). […]