Establishing Cultural Intelligence in Organizations



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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands

Establishing Cultural Intelligence in Organizations

It all depends on the organizational culture and how an organization communicates this among its employees.
Keep it stupid simple, choose the right people (cultural fit) for your organization. And before they start to work, give them a training in company goals, company structure, communication, collaboration and explain what your global company values truly mean in a cross-functional and cross-cultural manner.
A lot of companies simply don´t work this way, they just focus on getting the job done.
 

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Patrick Kinane
Management Consultant, United States
 

Culture and Climate, Strengths and Weaknesses

I will agree with most of the article but an organization is composed of more than culture. Organizational culture is how things are done, representing reality. Climate is what people think of the way things are operated representing collective conscience. And control which are the rules and policies representing the way things should be done, the ideal. When all are aligned we have synergy and a well run organization.
My last and final point in the 6 steps states to examine the strengths and weaknesses and then concentrate on the weaknesses. This is a fallacy that many organizations have fallen into. They concentrate on the weaknesses believing the strengths will take care of themselves and what happens is that the strengths turn into weaknesses. You never get out of the spiral of reactionary management and progress to proactive management.

 
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Jane Farran
Business Consultant, United States
 

Senior Execs Should Focus on Strengths

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Daniel Verheyen, Netherlands
 

Establishing Cultural Intelligence in Organizations

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reader1, China
 

First Cognition of a Foreign Culture

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D P BABU
Strategy Consultant, India
 

Socio-cultural Environment in Organizations

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Manepalli Vinay Babu
Partner, India
 

Cultural Intelligence and RESPECT

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Madan Gopal Agarwal
Business Consultant, India
 

Think Global, Act Local

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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
 

Cultural Intelligence Starts with 'Inviting'

From the 'supple' to the 'soft' through the 'hard' to the 'obnoxious' from the 'palatable (Ed: ~acce... Sign up

 
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Moise Mungala Tshimbu
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
 

Building Cultural Intelligence

I do appreciate the content of this article and the wave of comments it raises worldwide. In my opi... Sign up

 
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Ray Roberts
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Cultural Intelligence is About Adapting to Differences

Cultural intelligence is an interesting concept only in that it relates to the "degree" of differenc... Sign up

 
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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Cultural Intelligence in Mergers

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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
 

Cultural Intelligence and the Will to Equate

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A.J. Heideman
Management Consultant, Netherlands
 

Constant Learning Needed

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C.J. Mlilo
Manager
 

Merging of Organizational and Societal Habits

I think the key lies in a smooth, compatible merging of habits that are common to both the organizat... Sign up

 
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Lien Nguyen, Viet Nam
 

Personal Sub-cultures

Though it is vital for anybody doing business internationally to have some level of cultural intelli... Sign up

 
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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Cultural Report

As a suggestion, wouldn't it be interesting if (international) companies would issue a cultural repo... Sign up

 
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felix owolabi
Student (University), United Kingdom
 

CQ Deficit, the Difference Between Royal Dutch Shell and Others

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Ochora Onek
Student (MBA), Uganda
 

Organizations are Melting Pots

Reading through the comments, one thing that can be pointed out is that a culture which is identifi... Sign up

 
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Dr.S.K.Baral
Director, India
 

Establishing Cultural Intelligence in Organisation

Successful interaction across cultures requires cultural intelligence. Several aspects of cultural i... Sign up

 
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Mohamad Nasir Mahmood
Director, Malaysia
 

Cultural versus Organizational Intelligence

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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Cultural Fit in Hiring Phase

There are some wonderful comments here. Let me share one simple example from my own experience. This... Sign up

 
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
 

Cultural Intelligence

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Olga Aros
Consultant, United States
 

Cultural Dexterity

All organizations involved in global enterprises need to assess the cultural dexterity (Ed: ~being s... Sign up

 
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Paulkalule
Student (University), Qatar
 

Culture Intelligence is Continuous Learning Process

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Olga Aros
Consultant, United States
 

Cultural Intelligence and Cultural Dexterity are Both Critical

As a point of note, no matter how much cultural intelligence each individual within your organizatio... Sign up

 
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Gwande
Project Manager, Zimbabwe
 

Learning Languages

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Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
 

Balancing Act with Language Learning

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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

The Importance of Language

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Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
 

Learning Languages is Part of CQ

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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
 

Balancing the Language Learning Act

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A.J. Heideman
Management Consultant, Netherlands
 

The Importance of Language

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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
 

Importance of Language

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Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
 

Importance of Language

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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Importance of Language / Concept of 'face'

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Mrs. Josephine Idele
Partner, Nigeria
 

Cultural Intelligence and the Workplace

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Olga Aros
Consultant, United States
 

Reasons for Cultural Change in Organizations

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Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
 

Dinosaurs

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Daniel Newton Obaka, United States
 

Techno-cultural Shared Values

Olga, you seem to be seeing the future as it is unfolding through the ever evolving information tech... Sign up

 
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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Dinosaurs

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Gwande
Project Manager, Zimbabwe
 

Information Technology

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Marcel Wiedenbrugge
Consultant, Netherlands
 

What we Say / How we Act

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Anneke Zwart
Student (University), Netherlands
 

How to Enhance Cultural Intelligence Within Companies?

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Olga Aros
Consultant, United States
 

Steps to Increase your Personal Cultural Intelligence

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