How do you cross the street? Depends on your perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
What could be easier than moving from one side of the street to the other? Look left Look right When there’s no oncoming traffic, cross the street Right? Not so fast. Crossing the street, like many other daily rituals in our lives, is influenced by that massive lens through which we see the world … […]
Tags: culture, life lenses, perpsective
Cultural intelligence and the UN Rio World Urban Forum
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Diversity & culture, Social Responsibility, Travel
What’s your CQ? You may be familiar with IQ, social intelligence and emotional intelligence but the new kid on the block is cultural intelligence. I’m in Rio de Janiero, Brazil at the United Nations World Urban Forum. I’ve just finished doing a workshop on cultural intelligence, which is a combination of meta-cognition, skills and knowledge, […]
Tags: assumptions, brazil, complexity, Conflict resolution, cultural intelligence, culture, heath, intelligence, intercultural, made to stick, united nations, world urban forum, worldview