Articles about organizational, functional and national cultures and how they interface and interact in the workplace.
After waking up from jetlag at 3:30 and not being able to fall back asleep, I had a long day(I left the house at 7:50 and didn’t return until 23:00), so just some first impressions after my first day on the ground. After my first shock from not be…
Here’s something you won’t often here me say: The past few Tuesdays, I have gone to bed far too late because I stayed up watching reality TV. I find the premise of many reality TV shows to be uninteresting, but TF1 recently ran one that caught my …
On the surface of it, it seems rather ridiculous for so much time, energy and attention to be dedicated to a series of football (soccer) matches. After all, it’s just a game. It’s not like these are brain surgeons or great statesmen or even great …
Fons Trompenaars addressed the Orange Business Live 2010 in Amsterdam and gave a few interesting insights about the French. (His mother is French.) He claims that Management by Objectives (MBO) failed in France because it depersonalized the auth…
Looking for inspiration? Listen to this interview with adventure traveler and documentary filmmaker Karin Muller. She talks about her experiences embedding herself in cultures in every corner of the globe during the past 16 years. Her cultural ope…
Looking at the things I work on, the things I read, the things that attract my attention and generally the things that interest me, interconnectedness comes across as a major theme. What at first looks a chaotic mass of unrelated topics actually t…
There is a constant tension in any organization between the need to manage the whole and the need to break tasks down into digestable chunks. The way we handle an organization’s relationships is a clear example. We talk about the need to project a…
