As author Yuval Noah Harari so clearly points out in his best-selling book “Sapiens,” every culture is built on a set of fictitious stories that are treated as truths or realities by people in that ...
He too was a believer in prayer. He simply wanted to emphasize that, in the world in which he lived where the school system was so broken, there were even more fundamental matters to address. At least ...
Applying anthropology to business means asking the big questions. How does communication influence culture? How does language continue to evolve? And what are the hidden assumptions that shape our ...
American attitudes dissuade citizens from having a universal health care system (UHC). Those beliefs have outweighed considering the health benefits gained from providing affordable health coverage to ...
Source: Adobe stock image by GoodIdeas, licensed by Ravi Chandra We all have biases, we can minimize or even overcome them by being aware of them. There is a spectrum of bias from unconscious ...
For those of us who work in multinational companies with colleagues from around the world or for anyone who works in heterogenous, multicultural societies, having a strongly developed sense of ...
It is commonly acknowledged that there are four stages of cultural adjustment, but this process is not always linear. You may find yourself moving back and forth between stages as you encounter new ...
This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...