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Diversity in Germany

Deborah Capras — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:57:04 +0100

At a recent conference in Germany, when one speaker asked the audience who was a migrant, I suddenly wondered what that word really meant and whether I was a migrant too.

Publikum

Virtual revolution

Deborah Capras — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:39:33 +0100

In Business Spotlight 2/2010, the main feature in the intercultural communication section focuses on working in virtual teams. This seems to be a hot topic for an increasing number of people and requires a new skill set.

Thema

Sense of urgency

Deborah Capras — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:57:59 +0100

Those familiar with change management will know that the key to changing organizations and individuals is to create a "sense of urgency". I’ve just experienced two very different approaches to getting me to change my behaviour.

Änderungsverwaltung

Dringlichkeitsgefühl, Handlungsdruck

Herangehensweisen

The joy of train travel

Deborah Capras — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:25:22 +0100

On the one hand, there was my flight from Munich to London with one of those "quick and dirty" airlines. On the other, a train journey from Munich to Paris last week.

einerseits

Billig-

Continent isolated

Deborah Capras — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:21:08 +0100

"Eurostar fails. Continent isolated" was a nice variant on the legendary newspaper headline, "Fog over the Channel. Continent isolated".

Schlagzeile

Nebel

Happy reading!

Deborah Capras — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:58:35 +0100

I don’t know about you, but I only find time for serious reading when I’m on holiday. Here are some of the books I’m looking forward to exploring during the Christmas break.

sich darauf freuen

Central European change

Deborah Capras — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:27:25 +0100

As a student, I spent a year working in Vienna. In my free time it was a real adventure to explore the countries behind the Iron Curtain.

erforschen

Eiserner Vorhang

East-West memories

Deborah Capras — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:04:35 +0100

During one exercise which required two groups from different cultures, they immediately came up with the idea of dividing up according to whether they were "Ossis" or "Wessies".

die Idee haben

Wait and see in China

Deborah Capras — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:56:55 +0100

Had the Chinese waiters secretly known that I would not be able to eat it all and discreetly omitted to bring it as they wanted to save me from losing face?

auf diskrete Weise

unterlassen

sein Gesicht verlieren

Testing times

Deborah Capras — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:53:40 +0200

"Do you prefer to work at the computer in your study or mow the grass in your garden?" This is the sort of question you find in "quick and dirty" personality tests in glossy magazines.

Arbeitszimmer

mähen

schnell zusammengeschustert

Hochglanz-