by Chris Smit | Mar 16, 2012 | Culture Matters
Cultural Awareness Definition You’re on the website Culture Matters now What could be a cultural awareness definition? Or better, in which context is it used on this website? When you look up “Culture” on Wikipedia, there are 8 chapters of... by Chris Smit | Feb 23, 2012 | Culture Matters
Let’s Talk About Humor in Culture Consider this phrase: “If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much…” Please, don’t switch off, but please read on. Now ask yourself: is this funny or not? Chances are that it was, or it was not. In...
by Chris Smit | Jan 27, 2012 | Power Distance
Informal Inspection by the Boss Imagine this setting: A small company consisting of about 8 people. They busy themselves with interim services (finding and placing candidates within companies). All this is in the country of Belgium. Most of them work remotely. There...
by Chris Smit | Jan 8, 2012 | Democracy, Government, Leaders, USA
2012 Elections It’s an election year in the US. The first primaries have been held in Iowa for the bid of the republican candidate who will contest President Obama in November this year. The winner there: is Mitt Romney. For now. Another Republican contestant,...
by Chris Smit | Dec 12, 2011 | Video
Working Internationally After doing a presentation on Personal Cultural Awareness Training in Amsterdam last month for Talk about IT, I was asked to comment on what 3 things someone can do to better understand “the other” culture. Watch this short 2-minute...
