Most people tend to emphasize just one or two, at most three, dimensions of cultural difference when it comes to parsing and predicting foreigners’ behavior. But cultures differ along many more than three dimensions, so the more dimensions you consider, the less likely you are to trip up on a cultural paradox. The trouble, of course, is that it’s cognitively difficult for us to keep more than three dimensions of comparison in our head at once. So Erin Meyer developed a tool to help us navigate the cultural minefield more systematically.
Content: Article
Authors: David Champion, Erin Meyer
Source: Harvard Business Review
Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior
Authors: David Champion, Erin Meyer
Source: Harvard Business Review
Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior
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