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From the Dorm Room to the Board RoomUse Your Difference to Make a Difference | with Tayo RocksonTayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, and media personality who runs UYD Management, a strategic, leadership, and consulting firm that helps organizations incorporate sustainable diversity and inclusion practices. As someone who's lived on four continents, he is an authority in communicating effectively across cultures. He also hosts the popular As Told by Nomads podcast and his new book, Use Your Difference to Make a Difference, which is about how to connect and communicate in a cross-cultural world, is scheduled to come out on September 4, 2019.
Today, Tayo works with institutions of all sorts to help them connect effectively across cultures. H...
2019-08-0600 min
As Told By Nomads224: Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone with Andy MolinskyToday's interview is with ATBN favorite Andy Molinsky! He's back!!!! And today we are celebrating his new book: Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.According to Andy Molinsky, an expert on behavior in the business world, there are five key challenges underlying our avoidance tendencies: authenticity, competence, resentment, likability, and morality. Does the new behavior you’re attempting feel authentic to you? Is it the right thing to do? Answering these questions will help identify the “gap” in our behavioral style that we can then bridge by using...
2017-01-2521 min
As Told By Nomads205: Dissecting The Cultural Code Of United States with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. This time we are doing the Americas. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is United States.The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and federal district are in central North America between Canada and Mexico, with the state of Alaska in the northwestern part of...
2016-10-2911 min
As Told By Nomads203: Dissecting The Cultural Code Of Germany with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Germany.Germany is a great power and has the world's fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, as well as the fifth-largest by PPP. As a global leader in several industrial and technological sectors, it is both the world's third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a developed country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled and productive society. It upholds a social se...
2016-10-2309 min
As Told By Nomads201: Dissecting The Cultural Code Of France with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is France.France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world. France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fo...
2016-10-1507 min
As Told By Nomads198: Dissecting the Cultural Code of Great Britain with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Great Britain.Great Britain, also known as Britain is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe. It is the largest island of Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with Great Britain constituting most of the United Kingdom's territory. Most of England, Scotland, an...
2016-10-0809 min
As Told By Nomads196: Dissecting the Cultural Code of India with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is India.India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. India's capital is New Delhi; other metropolises include Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialized country. However, it continues to face the challenges of...
2016-10-0110 min
As Told By Nomads194: Dissecting the Cultural Code of Japan with Andy MolinskyBack at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Japan.Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Shinkansen bullet trains connect the main islands of Kyushu (with Okinawa's subtropical beaches), Honshu (home to Tokyo and Hiroshima’s atomic-bomb memorial) and Hokkaido (famous for skiing). Tokyo, the capital, is known for skyscrapers, shopping and pop culture. Capital: Tokyo.He uses the fo...
2016-09-2309 min
As Told By Nomads192: Dissecting the Cultural Code of South Korea with Andy MolinskyToday, we are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. If you remember from last week, Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is South Korea.South Korea is highly urbanized at 92%, South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents and the world's sixth leading global city with the fourth largest economy.He uses the following six-dimensional framework to capture the differences across cultures.Directness: How straightforwardly do people typically communicate in this culture?Enthusiasm: How much...
2016-09-1508 minAs Told By Nomads190: Dissecting the Cultural Code of China with Andy MolinskyToday's episode of As Told By Nomads is a special one as it is with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Many of you will remember him from Episode 77 when he discussed Global Dexterity. Today's episode is the first part of a ten episode series highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. According to Andy:Most of us collaborate with teams across borders and cultures on a regular basis, whether we spend our time in the office or out on the road. And when we do, it’s essential to have a quick sense of the “code” of the new culture we’re opera...
2016-09-0815 minAs Told By Nomads077: How to Achieve Global Dexterity with Andy MolinskyAndy Molinsky is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. He is also the author of the new book Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process(Harvard Business Review Press). Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University. Andy's current work focuses on Hosted on Acas...
2015-08-0434 min