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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

About 90% of firms globally are considered small- and medium-sized enterprises, with such firms representing around 70% of all jobs. Our global assessment showed no significant differences of future readiness of SMEs at the regional or the industry level,” the authors say. Becoming future-ready.

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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

The second is to dial up their listening behaviors: by listening directly to the people you work with; and indirectly by reading as much as you can—try a simple Google (“Business Customs in X country”) or learn from cross-cultural experts like Geert Hofstede or Miriam Spering.

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3 Ways to Identify Cultural Differences on a Global Team

Harvard Business Review

In a global organization, you may have colleagues that come from a different country. For example, the Dutch social psychologist, Geert Hofstede outlined a number of dimensions that highlight ways that cultures differ. Rolfo Brenner/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.

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Where Both Parents Can "Have It All"

Harvard Business Review

Cross-cultural analysts like Geert Hofstede have said that the biggest difference between the Nordics and other countries are their highly 'feminine' vs 'masculine' values. The Nordic executive team (mostly men) I worked with this week were fascinated by the Hofstede research. Pragmatic indeed.

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Your Coworkers See Your Office Differently

Harvard Business Review

Geert Hofstede, in Cultures and Organizations , discusses five dimensions of national culture. Hofstede also points out that cultures vary in their acceptances of differences in power. One of them is whether a culture is more individualistic or collectivistic. Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.

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In Asia, Power Gets in the Way

Harvard Business Review

Professor Geert Hofstede calls the phenomenon " power distance." It has the highest power distance of any country in the world: a staggering 104 on the Hofstede comparative power distance index. When businesses fail to address issues of power, they remain vulnerable to failure. What makes it particularly relevant in Asia?

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