In last months blog we concluded that our main character, Tom Rush, portrayed cultural preferences known as universalism, individualism, and a doing or action orientation. One night over...

Global, virtual teams must learn how to align behaviors and collaborate across cultures and around the world.

How do we shift our focus from me to we to us? He has gone from a manager who was individually focused, competitive, action- and solution-oriented to a more reflective, productive,...

How does a global leader turn challenges into opportunities? In our blog, we have been following Tom Rush, a newly promoted global project team leader.

In our November blog, John Rafferty, Toms colleague in Taiwan, asked questions about team spirit. When he was the sales director for North America team spirit was one of his...

My previous blog post introduced the story of Tom Rush, an up-and-coming global project leader who was considering the idea of working with an executive coach to help him excel in his new...

Organizations have gone from domestic to international to multinational to global. This six-part series will discuss what leadership means in todays global organizations.

What does it mean to respect someone or something? The word respect is from the Latin respectus, which literally means regard, with the sense of the act of looking back at one, and the past...

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up. The global economy, with its financial crashes, and the global workplace, with its culture clashes, have increased the trend of people...

Globalization is a business reality. This book presents a new approach that addresses culture directly and is based on research from the field of neuroscience.