Scientists like to measure things. Social scientists especially like to measure things that are hard to measure. In the late 1960s a Dutch scholar by the name of Geert Hofstede took on measuring cultural difference. He ended up having over 100,000 managers at IBM worldwide fill out surveys to test how cultures differ. The result [...]
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Goodwill hoarding...
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The Culture-Savvy Leader: Empathy...
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