Following up on the blog Culture at Work: a Collabyrinth, I have started a series of five mini-blogs in which I reveal five pieces of advice that emerged from my Ph.D. study (Smits 2013). The five P’s, as I like to abbreviate them, capture my key recommendations for working in a cross-cultural environment. I want…
Following up on the blog Culture at Work: a Collabyrinth, I have started a series of five mini-blogs in which I reveal five pieces of advice that emerged from my Ph.D. study (Smits 2013). The five P’s, as I like to abbreviate them, capture my key recommendations for working in a cross-cultural environment. I want…
Following up on the blog Culture at Work: a Collabyrinth, I have started a series of five mini-blogs in which I reveal five pieces of advice that emerged from my Ph.D. study (Smits 2013). The five P’s, as I like to abbreviate them, capture my key recommendations for working in a cross-cultural environment. I want…
Following up on the blogpost Culture at Work: a Collabyrinth, I have started a series of five mini-blogs in which I reveal five pieces of advice that emerged from my Ph.D. study (Smits 2013). The five P’s, as I like to abbreviate them, capture my key recommendations for working in a cross-cultural environment. I want…
Following up on the blog Culture at Work: a Collabyrinth, I’ve started a series of five mini-blogs in which I reveal five pieces of advice that emerged from my Ph.D. study (Smits 2013). The five P’s, as I like to abbreviate them, capture my key recommendations for working in a cross-cultural environment. I want to…
At work, in whatever form or organizing, collaboration is a salient topic. The arena of an organization is like a maze of different (national, organizational, and professional) cultures combined with the employees’ distinctive perspectives on their part of the work process. An organization can bee seen as a complex network of interaction, where working together…
On May28th I had the opportunity to present at TEDxPuntaPailtilla in Panama. This might sound as if this was another presentation in the line, but it’s not. Speaking at TEDx is truly a different experience. First of all, it’s this well-known event where people can share there ideas. Hence their slogan “Ideas worth spreading”. Second, in…
The kind funder of my Ph.D. research, Next Generation Infrastructures, is hosting a competition for the best Ph.D. study of the year. As you might guess, I want my study on cross-cultural collaboration in the Panama Canal Expansion Program to win.In a 60sec. video I explain why this study deserves the INFRA SPARK AWARD. Check…
Last week I had the opportunity to work with the Management Team and Regional Directors of ESAP, the school for Public Administration in Colombia. The entire project, titled V-ESAP (Virtualization ESAP), is dedicated to enhance the academic program with virtual education. Besides the academic component, the project also contains a management component. And as part…
Published in the PMI Netherlands Newsletter In the execution of a project, collaboration is inevitable. During a four-year research project I studied how collaboration became manifest in the everyday work life of project participants in the Panama Canal Expansion Program. The journey towards developing a collaborative relationship can be seen as a collabyrinth. This neology…
