Tag: culture contact
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The nightmare conflict between external perceptions of value and feeling needed
I recently had a most illuminating conversation on the topic of diversity. The conversation involved a very common work problem – the employee in question had been feeling (and objectively […]
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Is Monday causing you the deep blue blues? Coping with changes to coping
Monday blues – who hasn’t heard of it? It’s that anxious, sinking feeling that can last all weekend (starting, in fact, before Friday at times) that meets and greets Monday(s), […]
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The one where I extol the virtues of anthropology
Is anthropology useful? This question usually happens right before a person admits they know next to nothing about the science in question. (Which, I should say, leaves us with a […]
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The world is full of exciting options. Should you use them all?
Especially for entrepreneurs like myself, who are not yet a huge name everyone (or at least everyone in target industries) recognises at once, but also for everyone who already has […]
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Getting back to things… after taking a time off
Learning to stop working and give oneself a break and then going back to it (hopefully relatively fresh and rested) are possibly two greatest steps in our professional existence. I […]