Understanding the other is a good way to navigate the cross-cultural minefield

When working in a multinational environment, it is sometimes hard to understand the cultural code of others. In such situations, the easiest way is to blame the other, but this approach is clearly not very productive or culturally savvy. We are wo...

Looking for a job? Mind your personal branding!

Each of us is a CEO of our own company: Me Ltd. In order to remain competitive on the employee market today, we have to think about a marketing strategy for the brand called You.

The process where individuals make efforts to differentiate ...

How fiction could help us understand people from other cultures: A review of the novel The White Tiger

This week, our team member Deliana read a novel by Balram Hawai called The White Tiger. The story is about a poor Indian boy who turned himself into a successful businessman through ambition and intelligence. However, the villager’s jou...

The link between effective sleep and effective leadership

What neuroscientists know is that while some brain areas could do relatively well with few sleeping hours, the prefrontal cortex suffers severely without sufficient rest. This frontal part of the brain cortex is responsible for what is called exec...