Gestures & The Fist Bump

NPR reports on the Fist Bump as the new High-Five!  The fist bump became a big issue when President Obama used it in his 2008 campaign as a greeting to a restaurant employee.  As most of us know the fist bump has gained popular standings to signal a job well done, “I agree with you”, or “what’s…

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Cultural Problems in the Workplace

Learning to identify cultural problems in your workplace can help boost your happiness with your job. HueWire.com reports on the 10 signs that there is culture trouble in the workplace and they’re not talking about employee’s ethnic background. Rather they discuss the importance of how employees and employers work together and the overall cohesiveness of…

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Succeeding Globally

As many of us know, the business world is a predominately male dominated world.  In America, women have been working their way up the corporate ladder (they still do not receive equal pay for equal work), but find at times it’s very difficult to compete in a global workforce when there are so many cultural…

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Extroverts are happier people no matter where they’re from

EurekAlert recently commented on a new study by Timothy Church which indicates that being extroverted leads to an overall increase in positive emotion– regardless of culture. The study looked at the “Big Five” traits of participants across several different cultures. In a Previous Blog, we mentioned these “Big Five Traits”.  The term refers to five…

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