Multi-Cultural Awareness

We often talk about “cultural differences” when interacting with people from other countries but my experience from working and living in more than 15 countries worldwide, and travelling to many more, has also shown me that there are many more “cultural similarities” than we at first realise. When I went to Singapore and joined the …

Showing respect helped me build bridges in Singapore Read More »

Some years ago, when I first went to Bahrain to work (and stayed three years, it was so enjoyable!), one of the first things I had to do was go to the Ministry and finish all the form-filling and official procedures to register my arrival and residence in the country. I arrived at the correct …

Time Management – of the Cross-Cultural Kind Read More »