“You should not be saying these things to foreigners.” The problem I have explaining my own culture.
Some time ago I was one of a team training people working for a Europe-wide electronics retailing company. The subject was Global Leadership
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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What do a moth and Lady Ross’s Turaco tell us about our future?
I began a tour around western Kenya 2 weeks ago on the perimeter of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve
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Stoker
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Promising or Polarizing?
It is the classic classroom clash. The blustering, roaring yet brilliant thug shouting down the neat, scholarly, quietly-determined swot.
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Peter-Jeorg Alexander
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A Letter from Germany – Are the Germans Really That Efficient?
More than one year after the Covid-19 pandemic began in earnest in Europe, Germany has failed to deal with it effectively or, dare I say it,
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Lynda Goetz
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The Polarisation of Politics - Today’s Zeitgest
The polarisation of politics in the US would appear to be very much due to the two-party system which operates there. Republicans are right-
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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Three days which stay in the memory
As we say in Arabic, these days are pregnant with events which invoke many memories to those who follow history like I do. Three events in
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Stoker
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The World has Changed, Joe
by Stoker For seventy years the United States has dominated international affairs. Not by having an empire but by being both policeman...
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Richard Pooley
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A lousy image is bad for your health
For many years I used to run cross-cultural skills courses for businesspeople engaged in doing business across borders.
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Ethiopia: where ethnicity trumps nationalism. Abiy's dilemma
Thirty-six years ago this month (1977…yes, I can subtract, so be patient) I was driving south from Addis Ababa to my house in the Ethiopian
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Richard Carr
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The Antipodean Paradox. Have the Aussies and Kiwis become victims of their own success?
Without wishing to join the legions of armchair epidemiologists, I do have a perspective on how matters have been handled in the Antipodes
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