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The serious pursuit of knowledge in organizations will be challenged by an anti-intellectual orientation in the United States that has been present since the days of the frontier.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, Knowledge

American culture loves the myth of the lone individual hero. It is built into our cultural DNA as a nation and yet it’s not even supported by the evidence of our own history – the West was settled by groups of people not lone individuals; the great industrial advancements of the 1800s and early 1900s were not accomplished by lone geniuses but achieved by people … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Culture, International

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Technology Review | Subjects: Culture, Innovation

Globalization undermines neither the welfare state nor democracy, our survey argues; it is entirely consistent with sound environmental policies; above all, far from increasing poverty in the third world, it is the most effective force for reducing poverty known to mankind. But what about the view that globalization is a kind of cultural conquest? This too is plainly wrong. Under a market system, economic interaction … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Culture, International

as [Ralphp] Ellison went on to argue, American diversity and unease are more often than not the parents of American excellence.

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Perverse in the Popular, The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior