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Seven views on cross-cultural communication and the COI
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Thunderbird professors Denis Leclerc, Ph.D., and Karen Walch, Ph.D., enjoy watching students in their cross-cultural communication classes learn to thrive in diverse work environments. “The students realize that sometimes the issues they have in teams are not due to personalities but actually due to cultural misunderstandings and miscommunication,” Leclerc says. In this podcast, recorded July 16, 2009, Leclerc and Walch talk about the Cultural Orientation Indicator (COI), a self-assessment tool Thunderbird uses to help its students and corporate clients understand their own cultural preferences and the preferences of others. The professors are joined by five Thunderbird students from Italy and India, who talk about their own adventures in cross-cultural communication. Audio: Seven views on cross-cultural communication and the COI (15:25)
Gross domestic product numbers in the United States were bad but not horrible in the second quarter of 2009, and Thunderbird Professor F. John Mathis calls that good news. “All these things really reflect a slowdown in the deterioration of the U.S. economy,” Mathis said. “So that’s good.” He said the U.S. economy may see positive numbers in consumer spending, exports and business investment by the end of the year. “We may actually get some positive numbes next quarter,” he said. Mathis spoke July 31, 2009, on Financial News Radio’s “