As Told By Nomads

Today, 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 positive emotion and energy do they typically show?Formality: How much deference and respect do people typically demonstrate?Assertiveness: How strongly do people typically express voice their opinions?Self-Promotion: How acceptable is it for people to speak about their accomplishments?Personal Disclosure: How much do people...

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Today's interview is with Mathilde Caraccio. She is of Italian and French descent and has lived in Singapore and France so she has constantly been in in between different cultures. She is one of the founders of the Third Culture Kid Project. It is a project aimed at strengthening the community of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) around the world. Through her own experience, she found that there is not enough emphasis on the loss TCKs experience with each move so she has been focused on fixing that problem. By sharing stories from TCKs around the world, she hopes to bring answers and relief to other TCKs. For non-TCKs, she wants to raise awareness. We tackle all these issues and more. To find out more about her project, check out her website here: www.thethirdculturekidproject.wordpress.com.To catch the segment I did with NowThis News that I was discussing on the podcast, take a look here: www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1157916740965115/>> WEBSITE: www.thethirdculturekidproject.wordpress.com>>...

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Today'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 operating in.With this in mind he developed an e-book that provides a executive summary of 10 different cultural codes that you can download here.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 positive emotion and energy do they typically show?Formality: How much deference and respect do people typically...

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What’s the purpose of your job? If you believe that your sole purpose is to make money, then you’re cheating yourself, and your team, out of a meaningful experience. This interview is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to improve their results and job satisfaction. In this interview, I talk to Lisa McLeod about:Why purpose-driven organizations outperform the market by over 350%Why the traditional language of business unintentionally sabotages purpose and innovation.Why pursuing profit results in mediocrityHow to reclaim your sense of purpose to make your job more meaningful, productive, and dare we say it, fun.Lisa McLeod is a sales leadership expert and best selling author. Her newest book, Selling with Noble Purpose, hit the bestseller list within one month of publication. A sought after keynote speaker, McLeod’s clients include Apple, Google, Kimberly-Clark and Pfizer. She also works with numerous franchise organizations, non-profits, and trade associations. McLeod writes leadership...

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In the era of the millennial, Ranker.com has created a way to have the public’s voice heard in a fun interactive way that allows the public to create and vote on topics including “The Druggiest Rockstar of All Time,” “Best All Time Movie,” “Best College Football Coach,” and 11,000 more fun polls.They have 35-million unique visitors per month, and average 11-million votes a month on topics ranging from entertainment, pop culture, politics, gaming and more. In doing so, they have brought Silicon Valley to their Los Angeles headquarters while establishing themselves as the go-to company for crowd sourced data and rankings that speak to pop culture while giving a voice to today’s generation using up-to-date methods…the internet.Today, I have with me Clark Benson, the CEO of Ranker and we discuss his startup success and failures and how he is essentially using social media and crowdsourced data to tell a story and express public opinion in a way that is not “all about me” as other platforms have become. ...

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Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will bless you for it

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Today is Gender Equality Day but we are very far from actual equality so here are my thought on why men need to step up and bridge the gap.

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Today's interview is with Craig Ballantyne. Craig is an expert in personal development, productivity & transformation. He is also the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. His book is so fascinating to me that I spent 30 minutes picking his brain on systems we can set up to have a more productive day and what I got out of it was incredible. We talked about how to go from feeling stuck and simply going through the motions to feeling unstoppable and having The Perfect Day.Other things we discussed are as follows:The Perfect Day FormulaThe 3-C formula and how it worksThe 5 pillars of personal transformationMake sure to grab the book here: https://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Day-Formula-Control-ebook/dp/B01BERZSRW. He's on Twitter at https://twitter.com/craigballantyne and you can grab your perfect day kit here at http://www.earlytorise.com/perfectday/index_friends.html?utm_ad=29222&utm_placement=3&utm_medium=7&ls=102b4e9cf866bfbb660f0cb34fb0a5

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Today's episode is with Jason Will. Jason will grew up in an entrepreneurial family who stressed the importance of customer service and communication. Therefore, those principles have been ingrained in him from an early age.Over the past 10 years, he has successfully worked as a social media and technology consultant, freelance writer, speaker and advisor.A few things became clear over the course of time: building personal brands, teams and companies were the fueling elements of his passion. If you ask him, he'll tell you that Content marketing is greater than social selling ALWAYS.We discuss how he used his level of self awareness to pursue a passion and how he is helping influencers monetize their social media presence across cultures with Zipkick. Zipkick is a perfect representation of all the things that make him happy. It is a community driven by friendship and a love for food, drinks and the ability to discover new places.Due to having a global network, he can quickly help scale personal...

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Today's interview is with Paul MacAlindin. Paul discovered from an early age that he loved being an artist leading artists. As a musician, dancer and all-round performer, he found his voice through conducting, a passionate journey that has led him to work with orchestras and ensembles all over the world, from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to the Armenian Philharmonic to the Düsseldorf Symphoniker.Today is the launch of his amazing book Upbeat: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq as told by Paul from its inception to its eventual end. The NYOI came through the most difficult and dangerous of times to produce fine music not only in Iraq but also in Britain, Germany and France. A beacon of hope and achievement the young musicians and their tutors made bridges across their own ethnic divisions, made great music in the most trying and tragic of circumstances, and became their country’s best ambassadors in 5000 years.Here's him in a...

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