Cross-cultural communication: how people communicate across cultures

Just one thing

by Anna Ridgway | Dec 23, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, Developing trust, ethical business

I was in luck. I had gone out without a backpack and the bin had long gone, but there was an ‘I Love Salvos Stores’ cloth bag on the road below the lookout, still intact. I shook it out and stepped off the road onto the lookout over Melbourne’s Yarra River off...

Japan’s cultural attributes can help address economic and social challenges

by Anna Ridgway | Jan 1, 2017 | Adapting to change, blog, Global dexterity, globalisation, international business

Despite a ‘perfect storm’ of economic, social and geopolitical challenges in a changing world order, Japan is capable of finding solutions by being culturally authentic to itself. When considering Japan’s economic, social an geopolitical challenges, two...

Class prejudice – the diversity and inclusion white elephant

by Anna Ridgway | Jun 22, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Social commentary, Unconscious bias

The troubling phenomenon of ‘white flight’ in Australia was raised in a recent report about schools in Melbourne’s ‘progressive’ inner suburbs that were full of non-Caucasian migrant kids from the local housing commission flats but scarce...

Hastening slowly changing cultures of contempt for others

by Anna Ridgway | Jun 20, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Social commentary, Unconscious bias

In all the noise surrounding Eddie McGuire’s public remarks about holding veteran Australian sport commentator Caroline Jones underwater, inviting onlookers to ‘bomb’ her in so doing, I’ve been wondering what’s really going on his mind....

Valuing time across cultures

by Anna Ridgway | May 8, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Developing trust, Global dexterity, Managing across cultures, Social commentary

In Australia, and other industrialised countries with strong shared cultural traits, there’s a consensus that these cultures have world’s best practice on how to ‘manage’ time. So why has time anxiety increased exponentially and why is feeding the time...