By: Elmarie Parker on September 8, 2022
We all know the story of the religious legal expert wanting to test Jesus regarding the correct pathway to eternal life. It ends up that loving God with one’s whole being and one’s neighbor as oneself is what it all, in Jesus’ estimation, boils down to. But the legal expert wanted to press things further,…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on September 8, 2022
I found the presentation on navigating diverse cultural contexts in the workplace and in our personal lives fascinating and relevant to my current ministry position. I direct a nonprofit program called Second Home in the Portland area and along the Oregon Coast. We provide long-term housing for unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness, so that they can…
By: Audrey Robinson on September 8, 2022
Fascinating. I am sure there has to be research work completed in this space before Erin Meyer. Why? Because it is incredibly pertinent to how global businesses should operate to be effective. The United States has participated in the worldwide realm of multicultural teams for decades. I can recall longing for a two-year assignment on…
By: Kristy Newport on September 8, 2022
My family is among those who have waited for the prequel to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Rings of Power premiered this past week on Amazon prime and we watched with eagerness and excitement. It was interesting to note how the characters, almost too many to keep track of, imbued good and…
By: Becca Hald on September 8, 2022
My first cultural experience was when I was five years old. My aunt was at a hospital in Tijuana and we went to visit her. What I remember from this trip was that my parents took a wrong turn, and we ended up driving through a bad part of town. This experience, coupled with racist…
By: Denise Johnson on September 8, 2022
Culture, the lens through which we all interpret life. It colors everything from communication styles, decision making, to resolving conflict and trust. Yet, we are seldom aware of it in ourselves. It is just the way things are done. This status quo remains until that moment we are confronted by a different culture. Erin Meyer,…
By: Jonathan Lee on September 8, 2022
Erin Meyer, the author of The Culture Map, is a professor at INSEAD business school and focuses on helping business leaders and organizations navigate through the complexities of cultural differences in communication. The Culture Map was her first book and it presents her research on how people communicate in different global and cultural settings. She…
By: Roy Gruber on September 8, 2022
The first time I met my future wife’s family I found them to be rude. The reason for that perception was a spirited conversation between her parents and their five children. I don’t remember the topic but I do remember the loud volume and how multiple people spoke simultaneously. The loudest speaker got finish their…
By: Troy Rappold on September 8, 2022
Jesus, at times, was misunderstood; so was the Apostle Paul. All of us have been, perhaps especially when it comes to sharing our Christian faith with others. It is an inescapable aspect of human communication that the message one is trying to transmit is oftentimes distorted and misunderstood. In the book, “The Culture Map: Breaking…
By: Michael O'Neill on September 8, 2022
Starting a new activity of any significance generally produces excitement for me. It could be a new semester, a life or family event, an upcoming activity or project, or even a workout. I try to attack most things with all I can and for the most part, this strategy has worked in my favor. I…
By: Eric Basye on September 7, 2022
Born and raised in Minnesota, Erin Meyer broke free of her cultural roots and became a well-known international author and professor at INSEAD Business School in Paris, France. Focusing on organizational culture, Meyer has sought to understand cultural differences to improve effective leadership in the international business setting. Though she was raised in the Midwest,…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on September 7, 2022
Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map bridges the disciplines of business and psychology to pave the way for clearer international communication. Using eight scales, countries are mapped on a continuum which then can be compared against one another using mapping – the importance being their relative positioning to one another.[1] This visualization brings context to common…
By: Nicole Richardson on September 7, 2022
Je suis à peu près sûr que je suis français et pas seulement dans le nom. Communication is hard. Whether, as Kahneman points out in Thinking, Fast and Slow, it is the ways our brain’s System 1 & 2 function in decision making and “humans confounding tendencies to believe that what we know is the…
By: Michael Simmons on September 7, 2022
Erin Meyer’s work compiles cutting edge research into one location as it pertains to cultural mapping and cross-cultural communication. Meyer’s book The Culture Map focuses primarily on cultural competency within the context of business, however, her work is applicable to a variety of industries and contexts. She distills cultural difference into an applicable tool that…
By: Greg McMullen on September 6, 2022
Going Fast or Going Further? Years ago, while preaching one of my greatest sermons, I slammed my bible down on the pulpit in enthusiasm. As many Americans cheered and moved into worship, speaking in tongues, raising their hands, some Slavic patrons left and never came back to our church. Thankfully, one of the patrons who…
By: David Beavis on September 6, 2022
“But I didn’t make any mistakes. Only you played poorly.” The locker room filled with a chorus of “Oooo” at the remark made by the Dutch soccer player to his teammate. What could have been a locker room brawl was defused by this situation’s cultural interpreter. The Nigerian soccer player explained to his team “Jan…
By: Andy Hale on September 6, 2022
“If you go into every interaction, assuming the culture doesn’t matter, your default mechanism will be to view others through your cultural lens and to judge or misjudge them accordingly,”[1] argued Erin Meyers, in her global economics and sociology book, The Culture Map. Exploring cultural differences in social interaction and how it affects how we relate to…
By: Henry Gwani on September 5, 2022
Cultural Intelligence (CQ) might be a critical success factor if the global church is to effectively engage our multi-ethnic world. Paul illustrates the need for CQ by occasionally leveraging indigenous poetry in his sermons, correcting Peter’s culturally-related hypocrisy, and becoming “all things to all men” (Acts 17:28; Galatians 2:11-14; and 1 Corinthains 9:22). In the…
By: Kristy Newport on September 4, 2022
Have I focused my love for learning, appreciating good books, and capturing thoughts in writing while in my doctoral program? This question is what I hope to answer. Research began last year, and I initiated a process of trial and error in connecting thoughts and putting them down on paper. The start of my research…
By: Greg McMullen on September 4, 2022
Deep Calls to Deep (Psalm 42:7) I never planned or expected to be in a doctoral program, let alone a pastor. Growing up as a deaf child my communication skills and writing developed very late in life. I often wondered, if perhaps, my dad might have been embarrassed with having a deaf child with…
