The Globalist Blog

Why should companies globalize their approach to diversity? A: Diversity is all about the people in an organization. The people that we work with today, whether it’s a local or international project, are from all different kinds of backgrounds. Our workforce is global whether we are working internationally or not. So we need to understand [...]

“I don’t hear anything from their side” is the number one complaint that individuals express when working in cross cultural, virtual and global teams. There are three forms of feedback that this article will deal with – that of general responsiveness (or lack there of), accolades or praise, and criticism (hopefully constructive). Feedback is a [...]

An egalitarian management style is widely known as one of the most important aspects to Swedish business culture. They seek consensus and managers are seen more as facilitators or coaches who offer advice and suggestions, not as the final authority. One result of this approach is that decisions can be hard to reach and the [...]

Gain a competitive advantage, increase profits, and improve your human footprint by developing a global mindset. Emerging economies are becoming a major channel for new customers and investors, as well as employees. To compete and differentiate themselves in varying and new environments companies and their workforce have to develop a global mindset. Cultural sensitivity and [...]

Emerging economies are becoming a major channel for new customers and investors, as well as employees. To compete and differentiate themselves in varying and new environments companies and their workforce have to develop a global mindset. Cultural sensitivity and the capacity to collaborate on global assignments is an important step to evolving as a leader, [...]

The increasing press on the terrible labor standards at the Chinese Foxconn factories, where tech companies such as Apple, Dell, HP, Nokia and Sony source from, highlights the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility on a global scale. Global social responsibility is particularly important to an image-driven brand like Apple, which has been singled out more [...]

This blog post is written by Annika Hoeltje, senior consultant at Lamson Consulting: On my flight to Seoul I had an interesting conversation with the woman next to me, who is from South Korea but has been living in the USA for several years. She tells me that her parents sent her to live with [...]

This blog post is written by Annika Hoeltje, senior consultant at Lamson Consulting: I’m supposed to give a training at the Shanghai office at 9:30 in the morning. Even though my kind host did everything in her power to market and organize the course, she warns me, that many people might not show up for [...]

This blog post is written by Annika Hoeltje, a senior consultant with Lamson Consulting: The training room in Bangalore is full of Indian employees and managers who want to learn about cross-cultural teamwork and how they can more effectively cooperate with their colleagues around the world. I ask them to discuss in groups and then [...]

The following blog entry is written by Annika Hoeltje, a senior consultant with Lamson Consulting. I wake up early in the morning in my hotel room in Bangalore, woken by the sound of a concert from what seems to be at least a thousand cars beeping their horns. I wonder if India just won some [...]