My Tweets

  • Was on stage tonight with my son for a #magic show (HE was performing in front of over 110). Went pretty well again. Am a proud dad! 2 weeks ago
  • About to finish writing my next lecture for Kingston University: "How Great People Can Kill Your Project" 2011-10-28
  • 1 anthropologist on radio about EU issues: "there is as much cultural difference between France and Germany than between France and Japan" 2011-09-28
  • CCP Hilmar's talk #ghconf about EVE's players behaviour comforted me in my Human Dynamics approach of projects. 2011-06-30
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-23

France is shocked by how #DSK is treated in USA? This is typical of #cultural shock. USA: flat hierarchy. Fr: high hierarchy index. # [...]

Multicultural Thinking: the Develop Magazine article

Here is the content of the article I have published in Develop Magazine, issue #114 that you can read and download on the following links: Read online: http://issuu.com/develop/docs/dev114_web. PDF Download: http://www.develop-online.net/digital-edition. Look for the issue #114 in March 2011. The version in the Develop Magazine is obviously nicer to read with diagrams. The magazine is [...] [...]

Multicultural Thinking

In Develop Magazine’s March edition #114, I have published an article about multicultural project’s issues. You can find the article online in the pdf version of the magazine: http://issuu.com/develop/docs/dev114_web. Have a look, it’s page 54! [...]

Cross-cultural business: who am I really dealing with?

If you are running a business in UK, especially in London, you are very likely to be working with people from all over the world. Since I am presenting seminars and business chats on cross-cultural communication, I am often asked what the implications are on a business. I have already presented some aspects of it [...] [...]

Where on earth will we outsource off-shore?

As we all know, outsourcing off-shore is a complex decision to make for a company. The reasons for doing so are generally cost saving of course, but also the hope to get the development happen faster due to a bigger and more readily available team. When you have at last made the decision to do [...] [...]

Cross-cultural self stereotypes

Cross-cultural communication is a challenge for everyone! As Gert Jan Hofstede puts it in Exploring Culture, “Cross-cultural misunderstanding is a much under-estimated cause of trouble.” I am currently working a lot on this question for different reasons and I am very attentive to every cross-cultural trouble I am in front of. Working in London UK [...] [...]