{"id":21175,"date":"2019-01-31T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=21175"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:26:28","slug":"knowledgecq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/knowledgecq\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge CQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my time at Fuller Seminary, my favorite professor introduced me to David Livermore. David Livermore is a researcher, speaker, and author most known for his cultural intelligence quotient, or CQ as it\u2019s commonly called.[1]<\/a> Livermore, and the Cultural Intelligence Center, have developed four capabilities of cultural intelligence.[2]<\/a> Those are, CQ Drive, CQ Knowledge, CQ Strategy, and CQ Action.[3]<\/a> Suffice it to say that when I first heard about Erin Meyer, Livermore mentioned her work as a good way of developing more CQ Knowledge. Knowledge CQ is essentially understanding about culture in any given situation.[4]<\/a> Erin Meyer and The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures <\/em>did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

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Erin Meyer is a native of Minnesota but currently lives in Paris and works as a professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school.[5]<\/a> Erin has done extensive work across cultures and her contribution to the field of international business has earned her much notoriety, including being named one of the most influential thinkers of 2017 by HR Magazine.[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

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As I worked my way through The Culture Map<\/em>, I chuckled out loud more than once; her writing style was effortless, her stories incredibly relatable. In fact, I ended up emailing my sister-in-law the passage about Erin getting lost in New Delhi, looking for a restaurant.[7]<\/a> Nearly the exact same situation happened to us in our travels throughout India no less than four times in 10 days! I think I nearly wore out my chaco sandals trying to get to the subway in Kolkata, which was \u201cjust 5 minutes walk from the hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I particularly enjoyed Meyers work on leadership, hierarchy, and power. She built on the work of Geert Hofstede who coined the phrase \u201cpower distance\u201d, but she took it a step further by giving practical applications of how our behavior communicates much about us that we may not even realize.[8]<\/a> One of the things I found most interesting was how historical factors affecting the spectrum scale of leadership. I almost feel foolish saying this, but I had never thought to engage historical context of cultures into a present understanding of how cultures behave and interact today. I reflected quite a bit on her historical clue referencing the distance between people and God.[9]<\/a> She says, \u201cCountries with Protestant cultures tend to fall further to the egalitarian side of the scale than those with a more Catholic tradition. One interpretation of this pattern is that the Protestant Reformation largely removed the traditional hierarchy from the church. In many strains of Protestantism, the individual speaks directly to God instead of speaking to God through the priest, the bishop, and the pope.\u201d[10]<\/a> In light of the reading over the last few weeks, I was surprised to see her engagement with religion, and yet again surprised by my fascination with history.<\/p>\n

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This book definitely raised my Knowledge CQ and I am excited to see how it challenges me to think, and behave differently in my work and my travels.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> \u201cBio\u201d, David Livermore, accessed January 31, 2019, http:\/\/davidlivermore.com\/blog\/bio\/.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> \u201cCultural Intelligence 2.0: New Insights for Measuring and Improving CQ,\u201d Blog, David Livermore, last modified July 18, 2016, http:\/\/davidlivermore.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/2260\/.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> \u201cCultural Intelligence 2.0: New Insights for Measuring and Improving CQ,\u201d Blog, David Livermore, last modified July 18, 2016, http:\/\/davidlivermore.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/2260\/.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> \u201cCultural Intelligence 2.0: New Insights for Measuring and Improving CQ,\u201d Blog, David Livermore, last modified July 18, 2016, http:\/\/davidlivermore.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/2260\/.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> \u201cAbout\u201d, Erin Meyer, accessed January 31, 2019, https:\/\/www.erinmeyer.com\/about\/.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> \u201cAbout\u201d, Erin Meyer, accessed January 31, 2019, https:\/\/www.erinmeyer.com\/about\/.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Erin Meyer, The Culture Map (International Edition): Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures<\/em> (New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2015), 29.<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Ibid., 122.<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> Ibid., 128.<\/p>\n

[10]<\/a> Ibid., 128.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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