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…
Por segunda vez, SIETAR Argentina organizó el Congreso de Desarrollo Intercultural que tuvo lugar en la Universidad de San Andrés en Buenos Aires. Cross Culture Work participó con una presentación y un taller sobre el Trabajo Intercultural. El congreso, con el tema “El poder de la interculturalidad, enfrentado desafíos en un mundo diverso” recibió oradores…
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…
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…
