Rachel Smets About This Week's Guest Rachel Smets Rachel Smets is a clarity coach, 2xTEDx speaker, YouTuber, author, and online course creator. Rachel helps unfulfilled mid-career corporates confidently plan their 9-5 escape and turn their passion into income so they can have more freedom and live life on their terms. "Life is short, start living!" Be open to new experiences. Whatever they are. Be curious about your (new) environment. Be positive and don't let the negativity get in. Links mentioned in this episode are: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsmets/ YouTube: https://www.you ..read more

Petya Rasheva About This Week's Guest Petya Rasheva Petya Rasheva has lived and worked in 9 countries on 4 continents. She speaks 5 languages and can get herself understood in 3 more. Managed multi-million and multi-billion dollars construction projects around the globe, within culturally-diverse environments and global settings. "-50 degrees is no exception here in Mongolia." Learn the local language. Even if it is a few words here or there. It makes a world of difference. Always remember you're a guest in the country you are in. You're not superior. Engage with the local culture. Eat an ..read more

ChatGPT and cultural differences About This Week: ChatGPT and cultural differences In this podcast episode, we will talk about: What is ChatGPT? Who will embrace ChatGPT (and who will not)? What is the future and what will come after ChatGPT? And we'll make some other side-steps in AI-related subjects "We still have to think as humans and not as machines." ChatGPT and cultural differences; This is what ChatGPT said itself "ChatGPT is a cutting-edge AI language model developed by OpenAI, designed to generate human-like text based on the input provided. It has been trained on a vast corpus of te ..read more

Heather Hansen About This Week's Guest Heather Hansen Heather Hansen on how to develop UNMUTED leaders and organizations. How CEOs and C Suite Leaders need to encourage cultures of open listening Accent bias – how accents impact hiring decisions, leadership progression, and bias in humans and AI How AI needs to explore diversity in speech data. Why communications is not a skills problem solved by more training but at the core of who we are and the company cultures we make. Cross-cultural Communication Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion Language and Virtual Communication Policy Global English P ..read more

Allen Morrison About This Week's Guest Allen Morrison Allen Morrison was born in Canada and now lives in the USA. He has lived in several countries all over the world with a focus on China. Professor of Global Management and author of just released best-selling book Enterprise China. "It is true that some Americans can be really culturally insensitive." His tips to become more culturally sensitive are: The best way to develop cross-cultural skills is by working and living overseas When and if you travel, do so with purpose; Seek out new things, discover, and learn. Read up on the place where y ..read more

Douglas Herbert About This Week's Guest Douglas Herbert Douglas Herbert, a native New Yorker who's lived outside New York for almost 25 years. In France, his job title at France 24, the international news channel that he joined in 2006, is "chroniqueur". In Russia, where he launched his journalism career in the chaotic post-Soviet heyday of Boris Yeltsin, state media identified him as a "politolog": which means "political analyst". In Britain, he is more neutrally referred to as a "commentator", while back "home" in the US, he's a mere "pundit" or - worse - "a talking head". Douglas has lived ..read more

9-More signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! [Podcast] In this 23-minute podcast, we talk about 9 more of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. Or in other words, 9-more signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! We cover 9 of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. We’ll Give Everyone a Book It’s Too Expensive They Don’t Speak English We’ve Always Done It This Way, So Why Change? Business is Business in Any Country It Isn’t Our Priority At This Moment Cultural Differences Will Be a Thing of The Past Soon Doing Business Sim ..read more

9-Signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! [Podcast] In this 23-minute podcast, we talk about the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. Or in other words, 9-signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! We cover 9 (plus a bonus) of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. The lumberjack syndrome You Think We’re All the Same They Don’t Get It (but you do) I Just Don’t Understand Them Everyone is Online I Tried It and It Doesn’t Work If I know Some Do’s and Dont’s That’s Enough My Business Partner is Simply an Idiot You Know It, But Thi ..read more

Democracy and Cultural Diversity [Podcast] In this 23-minute podcast, we talk about what democracy is and how it is seen differently in different cultures. The Western concept of democracy is very different from the Indian or Russian, just to name a few. "Nothing is culturally neutral, neither is democracy." To read a corresponding article about democracy and cultural diversity, click here. Culture Matters The Culture Matters Podcast on International Business & Management Podcast Build your Cultural Competence, listen to interesting stories, learn about the cultural pitfalls and how to avo ..read more

Lucas Martinez on the Next Generation Job Search Lucas Martinez is the co-founder and co-CEO of Talent.com, the fast-growing global player in next-generation job search platforms that is connecting the world to work. With more than 30 million jobs available in 78 countries and 29 languages. "Our aim is to become the #2 globally in this market." Lucas Martinez Lucas Martinez's tips to become more culturally competent are: Try to speak (some) of the local language. It will give you a totally different experience being in that country. Travel if you can. Europeans are privileged as you can experi ..read more