Cultural Differences & Cultural Diversity in International Business

Don't Mention the Word Culture When You Talk About Culture; Tim Kuppler About This Week's Guest Tim Kuppler Tim is the Director of Culture & Organization Development with Human Synergistics. He also founded CultureUniversity.com which features insights from top culture experts. He led major performance and culture transformations regionally and globally as an automotive supplier executive so he ha...

About This Week's Guest Jeanne Boden Jeanne Boden is Managing Director at ChinaConduct, a company specializing in training and coaching European, Chinese, and people from around the globe in EU-China cooperation and communication. As a Belgian/European, Jeanne Boden holds a PhD. in Oriental Languages and Cultures. She spent many years in China studying, conducting research, and working in many con...

Third Culture Kid About This Week's Guest Third Culture Kid with Tayo Rockson The CEO of UYD Media and host of the As Told By Nomads podcast. His three tips to become more culturally competent are: Be curious. Explore what is out there. Explore what you don't know or think you don't know. Travel. By travelling you expand your world like nothing else can. He also suggests to get lost on purpose. Th...

About This Week's Guest: Sundae Bean Sundae Bean is an executive coach, intercultural specialist, and trainer. She supports organizations by helping their employees and the accompanying families live well and work successfully across cultures – without losing their sense of adventure. She is American by birth, Swiss by marriage, and an expat in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso by choice. Her three tips t...

Anna Maria Darmanin About This Week's Guest Anna Maria Darmanin Anna Maria is an entrepreneur, a policy adviser, a sailor, and a University lecturer where she teaches Intercultural Communication. A Maltese, who lives in different places at different times of the year: Belgium, Canary Islands, Sicily, and Malta. Her three tips to become more culturally competent are: Listen, listen, listen; and thi...

Pricing and Cultural Differences Why Doing Business is Never About the Price Possibly a bold statement, but I still believe it is true: doing business is hardly ever about the price. It is much more about emotions and... about people or the perception that we have of other people. Here we talk about Pricing and Cultural Differences. Many business decisions made are not about the price. They are mu...

Why Culture Plays a Role in Sports About This Week's Guest Susan Salzbrenner Susan Salzbrenner supports multicultural teams, professional athletes, and leaders of today and tomorrow to navigate diverse cultural contexts. In this podcast, she explains the role that culture plays a role in sports. She is an organizational psychologist, consultant, and trainer, focusing on diversity & inclusion, cult...

How Culture and Personality are Intertwined Culture and personality. Where do they fit? How are they mixed together? Is there overlap? Which one dominates? In this short podcast, I'll give you my, non-academic, view on this very interesting topic. I'm curious to hear your feedback, so please do not hesitate to drop me a line. Thank you!   Build Your Cultural Competence In the Culture Matters podca...

About This Week's Guest Thomas Kessler on culture and M&As Thomas Kessler is Partner and Managing Director of Global PMI Partners and draws on 20 years of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions and particularly in Post Merger Integration. The importance of culture in transactions is one of the essential success factors. Thomas looks at culture beyond being a success factor. In his experience culture...

How to Explain Culture to Kids Kids are no adults. With this, I'm not telling you anything new. So how do you explain culture to kids? Most of the work I do is with adults. All of the work I do is with adults. Except for this one time I had the opportunity to work with Children. I was asked to explain the concept of cultural differences to a group of children ages 6 to 16, from several European co...

About This Week's Guest Christophe Van Gampelaere Christophe Van Gampelaere is the Belgian partner at Global PMI Partners, the only global consultancy focused exclusively on international merger integrations and carve-outs. Christophe Van Gampelaere's three tips for becoming more culturally competent are: Read. Read books from Geert Hofstede Erin Meyer and others when it comes to culture (see the...

How to Work with a VA and Cultural Differences Working with a Virtual Assistant (VA) from a different culture is not always easy. In this podcast, I talk about my own experience and how you can benefit from this as well. Overcoming Cultural differences is usually the biggest hurdle to take when it comes to working with a VA. It's not PowerPoint or Dropbox or any other technical platforms that will...

Do's and Don'ts in International Business I get the question pretty much every time I give a workshop or lecture: "Can you give us some do's and don'ts on how to do this or that?". When this question gets asked, I always warn people that do's and don'ts are very contextual; what works in one context doesn't work in another one. So, always be very careful when it comes to applying do's and don'ts y...

Cultural Differences and the EU About This Week's Guest Madi Sharma Cultural Differences and the EU Madi Sharma is an entrepreneur and a social capitalist. She's a member of the European Economic and Social Committee, and living her life with one strict motto No Excuses! Her tips to become more culturally competent are: Say "Thank You". These simple words show a great deal of empathy and interest...

Why Company Culture Matters [Podcast] Why does company culture matter? because it can make or break your organization and your success. When I talk about "company culture", for me it is the same as corporate or organizational culture, so I'll use them interchangeably. Every organization has a company culture. Even 1-person organizations. Difference Between National Culture and Organizational Cultu...

About This Weeks Guest Vanessa Shaw Vanessa Shaw is an experienced consultant, trainer and active speaker at leadership conferences. She is a work futurist on a mission to help organizations and teams collaborate virtually in a way that builds trust and fosters innovation so that they can impact positive change in their work. Vanessa helps clients to navigate the digital revolution by implementing...

Uncertainty Avoidance in International Business The Hidden Cultural Dimension You Need to Understand When Doing Business Overseas This podcast is something different from the regular Interview podcasts that I do. I wanted to pay more attention to Hofstede's fourth and most difficult dimension: Uncertainty Avoidance. Time and again explaining this dimension is difficult to do. A lot of people link...

About This Week's Guest Professor Dr. Alex Mottrie Prof. Dr. Alex Mottrie is the Head of the Urological Department of the OLV Hospital Aalst in Belgium. He is also President of the European Robotic Urology Section and the worldwide Society of Robotic Surgeons. Finally, he is CEO of the OLV Vattikuti Robotic Surgery Institute (ORSI). His tips to become more culturally competent are: Next to being p...

Cultural Differences in India About This Week's Guest Neil Miller Neil moved to Chennai in January 2010 with his wife and four suitcases. In this podcast, he talks about Cultural Differences in India. He prepared by reading a lot of good books and meeting a lot of knowledgeable people. However, nothing could have prepared him for what he experienced trying to start his own business and then workin...

About This Weeks Guest Sabina Idler Sabina Idler is Founder, UX researcher and Interaction designer at UXkids. She is passionate about designing and improving interactive media for all ages. Sabina grew up in the south of Germany. Since then she has lived in the US and traveled through Australia and New Zealand before in 2010, her passion for kids and media brought her to Amsterdam. Her 3 tips to...

Sigrid Kaag About This Week's Guest Ms Sigrid Kaag is the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon. In this episode, Sigrid Kaag talks about her experience working for the UN, and her intercultural experience throughout her impressive career. Interview Links Links that are mentioned in this episode: Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_Kaag Build Your Cultural Competence In th...

About This Week's Guest Cultural differences and virtual assistance Sunder P is the Managing Director & CEO of TTK Services Pvt. Ltd., a TTK group company focused on providing technology-enabled consumer services. He is responsible for business strategy and the overall profitability of the firm, overseeing three divisions with distinct business models, operations in 6 cities in India, and a staff...