by Gary Oddou | Mar 19, 2020 | Global Skills
I want to start this by emphasizing the “talent” of being able to effectively manage our differences with others. Although this talent is not as visible as those we typically extoll–music, art, athletics and so on–the outcome of exercising...
by Gary Oddou | Jan 9, 2020 | Education
As human beings in a world of expectations within our family, social and work environments, we depend on clarity and predictability. We have clear expectations of driver behavior at red and green lights. Our and their lives depend on it. We go to work having clear...
by Gary Oddou | Dec 12, 2019 | Education, Global Skills
Exceptional people in our context are the best learners for several reasons. We’ll talk about one of them in this post: being slow to judge. This context is one where those around us represent different beliefs, values, customs, and perspectives. Our...
by Gary Oddou | Aug 23, 2019 | Global Skills
When Mark Mendenhall and I did our original research that formed the basis for the Global Competency Inventory and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, we found something very interesting. Our research indicated that individuals adapted to diversity better who were...
by Mark Mendenhall | Jul 4, 2019 | Leadership
How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very...
