We spend 40 or 50 or more hours at work each week, many of us spend more time with those we work with than we do our families. We want to be engaged in our work. We yearn for work that is enjoyable, meaningful and engaging. When we are engaged we are productive, successful and…
Company Culture Beats Your Own Culture
Moving to Dubai the book ‘Don’t They Know It’s Friday` written by Jeremy Williams was recommended to me. The book mainly addresses the cross-cultural aspects of life affecting Westerners and Gulf nationals in the GCC. It deals with the realities of business and the stresses and strains of operating in the Gulf as a Western…
Culture and ‘Cultured’
Culture is usually defined as being ‘characterized by refined taste, manners, and good education’. An indispensable addition to this definition in today’s ever growing world of international melting pots, would be the ability to use the stated ‘refined taste, manners, and good education’ in appreciating and coping with other culturally diverse tastes, manners and schools…