Archive for October, 2009

Culture Conversion

I’m on a trip to Europe and I was looking at the plugs and realized how the different outlets in the world are symbolic of cultures. You can’t ignore the different shapes of the plugs and outlets, and even when you can adapt the plug, without a proper power converter, you’re likely to blow up your machinery.

Your personal style, national culture, corporate culture

You bring each one of them to work with you everyday and have to bring it in harmony with each other. When the national culture and the corporate culture are comparable, it’s easy to understand the rules and adjust your personal style to adapt to them and still be productive. But the corporate culture always needs to be learned because Read more…

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