In May of this year (2024), a colleague and I traveled with a group of 15 American college students to Tokyo, Japan. The trip was part of an honors course on play across cultures. Before leaving, the ...

The human face is a trusty map when navigating the landscape of everyday affairs. Mostly, we are very skilled at using it. We can detect someone’s joy. We can sense another’s disenchantment. We can ...

The pace of change in today’s globalized and interconnected world means command-and-control leadership does not work anymore. The ability to thrive as a leader in the 21st century requires continuous ...

Does modernization—economic growth, technological advancement, globalization, increased education, and urbanization—reduce cultural differences? Conventional wisdom suggests that as nations get richer ...

Each human culture consists of a unique set of values, beliefs and practices. However, a common thread across cultures is the apparent importance of preserving aspects of those cultures throughout ...

Empathy is a vital tool to communicate, collaborate and create with colleagues or customers from other cultures by overcoming cross-cultural barriers. Empathy—understanding how others feel—is ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Evan Nierman When ...

Wikipedia exists in 357 language editions, but research through machine learning shows that not every one tells the same story. Jo Guldi, a professor, historian, writer and data scientist who teaches ...

Cultural differences in lifestyle choices like living alone and getting divorced have widened between historically rice-growing regions, where people are more collectivist, and wheat-growing areas of ...