POWER DISTANCE Do you feel more comfortable working in a strong hierarchy or do you prefer a sense of equality with all of your colleagues? This sensibility is called “power distance” and it concerns...
CHAPTER LIII It was evening at Emminster Vicarage. The two customary candles were burning under their green shades in the Vicar's study, but he had not been sitting there. Occasionally he came...
The Role of Ethnographers and Ethnographies We have a problem when we try to study cultures. Do you know what the problem is? The problem is that we all belong to at least one main culture and...
CHAPTER 7 The Bean-Field Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, for the earliest had grown considerably before the...
CHAPTER I TOM HOPES FOR A PRIZE "Father," exclaimed Tom Swift, looking up from a paper he was reading, "I think I can win that prize!" "What prize is...
CHAPTER 4 ABSENT TREATMENT I want to tell you all about dear old Bobbie Cardew. It's a most interesting story. I can't put in any literary style and all that; but I don't have...
CHAPTER XXI Roses of Yesterday The fortnight Anne spent in Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one, with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought...
Hi, this is John Bernard. Welcome to my blog this week. Culture determines the degree to which organizations can change. It ultimately determines the pace of change. So, how is it that we alter...
[SOUND] outdoor ambience and birds DR. ALAN GUTTMACHER: Dr. Cooke, it’s such a pleasure to be able to sit down and talk with you on the 50th anniversary of the founding of what is now of course the...
I live about five miles from the plant, so it takes me about 15 minutes to ride to work on my bike. It's an eco-friendly thing to do and saves a little bit on gas as well. My name is Christian...