In part one of two, I share some embarrassing cross-cultural misunderstandings from my time living in East Africa. Hear about two of the biggest ones– and what they taught me about the country, the ...

In today's global business environment, it's easy to "put your foot in your mouth" with an expression or behavior that can be misinterpreted. In a very crowded store in Paris, one elderly woman bumped ...

“My spouse and I come from different cultural backgrounds, with different perspectives, upbringings, and experiences. We love each other, but our biggest cultural divide is how we communicate. Since ...

Ever since he followed a pair of San Francisco cabbies around Chinatown in Chan Is Missing, cross-cultural misunderstandings have been a favorite theme for Chinese-American director Wayne Wang. Now, ...

We all have an internal list of those we still don't understand, let alone appreciate. We all have biases, even prejudices, toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs ...

In this decade characterized by highly complex transformation endeavors, where cross-cultural projects are the norm rather than the exception, project managers face an unprecedented challenge: ...

When I first heard the noise, I almost called 911. It sounded like my downstairs neighbor was bashing his wife against a wall. But I couldn't imagine Gion(ph), a gentle pacifist Sikh, hurting his kind ...

New research into the different ways that English and Polish people use language in everyday family situations can help members of each community to understand each other better and avoid cultural ...

As a teenager fresh from China, Zitong Jia never intended to become a social media phenomenon. She arrived in the United States at fifteen to attend high school, armed with curiosity and the everyday ...

As the appetite for cross-border deals increases, business schools are mining insights from corporate couplings that prospered against the odds, in the hope that they hold valuable lessons for ...