More than 3.4 billion inhabitants (who make up half of the planet’s population) are connected through social networks. These are figures that we can’t ignore since much of what happens around us today is being influenced by these numbers.
If your personal and professional abilities, your experience and your perspective are not based on a global mentality, you are losing all the opportunities that globalization offers you. One of these opportunities is to expand your cultural understanding.
Thus, the lack of cultural understanding and global mentality leads to a cultural shock.
Are you ready to avoid a cultural shock?
When you meet someone for the first time, it is evident that even if he or she speaks the same language or even is native of a nearby region, you notice very quickly that there are differences in the views and perspectives of each person.
If you spend more time with these people, as coworkers or within your group of friends, you begin to see that beyond what unite you with them (work project, goals, etc.) there are a number of values, beliefs, history, personality, profession, religion, customs, to name a few, that differentiate them from you.
From the corporate point of view, here is where bad communication or a misunderstanding may arise, which creates a continuous state of low productivity.
How can we understand other cultures and avoid low productivity?
Research in the area of culture has established that we can study and understand others depending on the group or society to which they belong.
For many centuries culture has been investigated and today we use the “The dimensions of culture” to guide learning and the correct application of the art of understanding others from their point of view and from their culture.
The dimensions of culture – or ways of seeing behavior – are very useful in understanding different cultures.
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Question: How can we understand other cultures and avoid low productivity?