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May 30, 2016

Cultural Agility in the Workplace

A Power-Fear Story: working with corporate leaders to effect deep and lasting corporate change The 1940 book Anna and the King relates...

May 29, 2016

How to Nurture a Thriving Organizational Culture

Forming an Organizational Culture for an inter-culturally complex world, Part 2 of 2 A thriving Organizational Culture must be...

May 11, 2016

The Anatomy of Organizational Culture

Forming an Organizational Culture for an inter-culturally complex world, Part 1 of 2 Culture is not driven by a list of values and their...

Apr 25, 2016

Applying Inter-Cultural Intelligence to the Region's Leadership Development Journey

KnowledgeWorkx expert equips next-generation leaders at the Middle East Leadership Academy, Doha MELA 5 launched in Doha on 6th March,...

Apr 5, 2016

The Application of Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) in Multinational Companies

Thoughts from the Manager of Diversity & Inclusiveness at one of the top three consulting firms, Middle East and North Africa. My journey...

Mar 20, 2016

Keeping the World in Mind

The Application of Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) in International Schools This article was written by one of KnowledgeWorkx's...

Mar 3, 2016

Leadership and Communication for a Global World

Part 3 of 3 Leadership disasters, communication collapse, and stakeholder missteps Our previous article looked at the HR headaches that...

Feb 17, 2016

Inter-Cultural Intelligence: Key to Operating in a Globalized World

Part 2 of 3 HR Headaches: traumatic transitions, recruiting failures, and retention wrecks. Previously in this series, we looked at the...

Feb 1, 2016

The Dangers of Operating in a Globalized World Without Inter-Cultural Intelligence

Part 1 of 3 The Biggest Challenge in Global Operations: You don’t know what you don’t know In the inter-cultural space, everyone has the...

Jan 17, 2016

Why We Use the Term 'Inter-Cultural Intelligence'

The long journey to a new field, with new language. Over the last 10 years we have thought a lot about what to call what we do. In the...

Jan 3, 2016

Communication Styles

An application of Inter-Cultural Intelligence: The importance of recognizing direct and indirect communication styles for speaking with...

Dec 16, 2015

Recruiting in an Intercultural World

Recruiting tends to focus on very traditional qualifications: references, work experience, and similar "must have's." Yet a high rate of...

Nov 10, 2015

Thriving in a Global World

Dealing with the dual challenges of place and people "Equipping people and organizations to thrive in an interculturally complex and...

Oct 25, 2015

Status

12 Dimensions of Culture, #12 Status is the last of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural...

Oct 6, 2015

Accountability

12 Dimensions of Culture, #11 Accountability is the eleventh of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the...

Sep 20, 2015

Communication

12 Dimensions of Culture, #10 Communication is the tenth of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the...

Sep 3, 2015

Planning

12 Dimensions of Culture, #9 Planning is the ninth of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural...

Aug 19, 2015

Decision-Making

12 Dimensions of Culture, #8 Decision-Making is the eighth of 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the...

Aug 3, 2015

Expression

12 Dimensions of Culture, #7 Expression is the seventh of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the...

Jul 14, 2015

Connecting

12 Dimensions of Culture, #6 Connecting is the sixth of 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural...

Jun 28, 2015

Context

12 Dimensions of Culture, #5 Context is the fifth of 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural...