Change Ventures 2014 - Day 10
Today’s Quote The desire to create is of the deepest yearning’s of the human soul. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf What We Did Last week students were asked to create an email survey to be sent ...
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Created a Diverse Team? What Next?
‘Diversity management will not unleash any potential benefits unless diversity is culturally valued.’ (1) The very essence that fuels innovation within your diverse team, left unmana...
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Can Humour Translate?
I recently asked one of my Singaporean friends to tell me a joke; she came out with something along the following lines – ‘my friends always tell me “it’s like that, like that&...
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TCK SUMMIT - Values and Identity with Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi
Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi is an Indonesian born psychotherapist and has lived in Hong Kong, Bali, Taipei, and currently in Macau. Anastasia received her Bachelor in Management at University of Indones...
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The best thing to learn is how little you know
The majority of cross-cultural disputes are not due to deliberate intentions to offend another person, but more due to misunderstandings and our expectation that others see the world the way...
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Guanxi 101: Appreciating The Value Of Relationships in Chinese Cultures
Roughly translated, the term guanxi (pronounced ‘gwan-shee’) can be taken to mean ‘relationship’ (1) and is a way of describing one of the worlds oldest and most comp...
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TCK SUMMIT - Families and Relationships with Lesley Lewis
Lesley's expertise is not only theoretical, but is also grounded in her own personal experience. She was born in the US to bi-cultural family but has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years. She is the mo...
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TCK SUMMIT - Families and Relationships with Meri Rosich
Meri Rosich has worked around the world, in New York, London, Barcelona, Hong Kong and Singapore, for top global firms such as American Express, Bertelsmann and Samsung, leading product innovation, st...
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Why Your Teammates Aren't Speaking Up - The Asian Perspective
Picture the following: An American manager at a MNC is sat around a table with her team in Singapore; it’s been a long meeting regarding the proposal of a new operational policy and at the end o...
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TCK SUMMIT: Future of Work with George Siosi Samuels
George Siosi Samuels is a creative entrepreneur, consultant and coach. He is also the Director of Siomedia, a Melbourne-based explainer video company. He's been featured by Adobe, Entreprene...
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TCK SUMMIT: Future of Work with Kolbe Grey
Kolbe is a TCK who is part American, part Irish, and part Indonesian. He has been very privileged to have lived in these three countries and to learn from their different strengths. Professio...
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TCK SUMMIT: Future of Work with Myra Dumapias
Myra Dumapias is a writer, educator and the part time CEO of nonprofit organization TCKid: A Home for Third Culture Kids. As the second director of TCKid after founder Brice Royer, Myra ...
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TCK SUMMIT: Future of Work with Ellen Mahoney
Ellen Mahoney is an American who grew up in Tokyo and Singapore. She is the founder of Sea Change Mentoring, a mentoring program for TCKs, and the co-founder of the bi-weekly Twitter chat, #TCKchat.&n...
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TCK SUMMIT: Future of Work with Erin Sinogba
Erin Sinogba is a development worker, communications specialist, and passionate advocate of transnational communities. She has been an active volunteer with TCKid since 2009, where she took the ...
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Why Coca-Cola Tests High Potential Leaders for Cultural Intelligence
Last week, the Cultural Intelligence Centre announced that every participant on Coca-Cola’s high potential leader program is tested for cultural intelligence (CQ); the ability to function effect...
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Cultural Change: Identity & Belonging
September’s theme is cultural change - the internal and external forces that shape our notions of personal identity and belonging - at the places we work, in our social interactions, and how we ...
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