Tuesday
Sep252012
Good Job: Culturally Intelligent Compliments
This week's blog is written by David Livermore, author of Leading with Cultural Intelligence and other books on CQ. I met David last year when I gained accreditation in the use of the CQ Assessment Scale. His blogs are always good value but I especially liked this one as it highlights one of those areas of communication that can be tricky across cultures. In his words below...
The giving and receiving of “compliments” is another example where leadership mantras fall short when mindlessly applied to all cultures