Cross Cultural Understanding

BLOG: The Challenge of Working Across Cultures

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“Let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy American University, Washington, DC 1963 More and more companies are dealing with cross-cultural issues either as a result of having divisions located in [...]

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What Possesses People To Do The Things They Do?

  A look at burning Korans, President Karzai, Terry Jones and cultural differences On March 20th Terry Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida burned the Koran, igniting a terrible situation in Afghanistan where twelve UN workers were killed by Afghanistan protesters.  As I watched the interview with the unrepentant pastor [...]

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