Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a new domain of intelligence that has immense relevance to the increasingly global and diverse workplace,  marketplace, and politicsplace.

  

Cross-cultural Differences

Examples

East vs. West

  

 
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In today's globalizing world, cultural intelligence is a necessary tool for every manager who deals with diverse teams of employees, customers, partners, competitors, government, and other business players.

Some aspects of culture are easy to see, but the most challenging parts of other cultures are hidden.

 

 
 

Cultural intelligence will help you manage cross-cultural differences effectively, in particular:

▪ lower the cultural barriers caused by ‘us’ and ‘them’ and to allow you to predict what ‘they’ are thinking and how they will react to your behavior patterns

▪ harness the power of cultural diversity and synergize diversities. → Examples

  

World Cultures

East vs. West: Beliefs, Values, Philosophies

Multicultural Collaboration

10 Guidelines

  

 

 
 

Culture in general is concerned with beliefs and values on the basis of which people interpret experiences and behave, individually and in groups.

Culture is the "lens" through which one views the world. It is central to what people see, how they make sense of what they see, and how they express themselves.

  

Managing Cross-Cultural Differences

10 Main Patterns of Cultural Differences

Build Trust

  

 

 
 

 

 		 

Chinese vs. Americans

Japanese vs. U.S. Firms

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some aspects of culture are easy to see, the obvious things like art and music and behavior.  However, the significant and most challenging parts of other cultures are hidden.  These might include our beliefs, values, expectations, attitudes, and assumptions. Our cultural perceptions and programming in these areas shape our thoughts, opinions and actions. They also make us decide what is ‘normal’ in our eyes and create ‘us’ and ‘them’ mindset.  Cross-cultural acceptance and communication problems are caused by the perceived deviation by other cultures from our version of normality.

 

 

 

Tagore quotes

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

Tagore

 

NLP

The map is not the territory;
people respond to their experience, not to reality itself.  >>>

Psychology of Success