Culture Category
Building global competence at home
Posted on July 17, 2017 4 Comments
Most of the research out there points to spending time abroad as the best way to build global competence. What about people who don’t have the privilege to travel internationally or work abroad? Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP talks a lot about the importance of respect, and authors of Being Global, Unruh and Gabera write that […]
Language, culture, and global teams
Posted on July 2, 2017 Leave a Comment
One of my favorite professors at Harvard was a quirky cosmopolitan named Bruno della Chiesa. Bruno, as he insisted we call him, taught a January-term course called Learning in a Globalizing World in which he investigated the nexus of educational neuroscience, language, and culture. One thing that stuck with me – although it was not […]
Conference: AHRD 2016
Posted on March 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
March 2, 2016 What an amazing conference! Two weeks ago I attended the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) 2016 Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. I consider AHRD my professional home, and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations and presentations throughout the week. I had the opportunity to present at the conference in three different formats. AHRD […]
Oliver S. Crocco 