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A Tale of Two Cultures: Leadership Lessons from America and Denmark in 2024

Business Lessons, Leadership / Dr. Tanya Finnie

Recently two headlines from opposite sides of the Atlantic illustrate a stark contrast between the cultures and political climates of America and Denmark. Denmark’s men’s soccer team made headlines by refusing a pay increase and accepting a 15% cut in their insurance coverage to ensure equal pay for the women’s national team. Meanwhile, in America, […]

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Name Day vs. Slava – They’re Not The Same Thing

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

Blog celebrating diversity through detailing the culture and traditional customs behind the Serbian slava and how this differs to a Name Day

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A Disturbing Racist Trend in the Media

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

Disturbing trends of racism, sexism, and homophobia in our news media are on the rise, with world leaders echoing these harmful sentiments. The way in which the media report on news has a huge impact on the way we view the cultures of the people that make up our nation. This is often shaped (or

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Growing Your Cultural Intelligence (CQ)

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

‘Do I really need to learn about culture to be better at my job?’ ‘Don’t you just automatically know this stuff and adapt accordingly?’ ‘Surely it is just common sense. I can just follow my intuition.’ Questions and statements, I often hear in the corporate world. The answer to this is simply, that you probably

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Culture, Racism, and ‘The Virus’ – How to Culturally Adapt as a Leader

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

Covid-19 drained the colour from India’s spring festivities. Australia’s older vulnerable people feared being trampled shopping for food. Chinese students are wondering if they’ll ever complete their studies around the world and has now been warned to not come to Australia, due to racism. The cruise industries’ bottom line took a dive. The virus did

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Happy Easter! How will you celebrate?

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

Easter is upon us! Enjoy the beautiful 4-day long weekend coming your way. Irrespective of whether you are religious or not, long weekends are a great time to catch up with family and friends and de-stress from your busy pace. I’d like to challenge you to explore one different way of doing something this weekend.

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A Culture of Giving

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

The Christmas and New Year period has been and gone, but does this mean that all the giving should stop? Doing good makes people feel good! It makes us happy, so why savour these feelings strictly for December? The answer is, we shouldn’t. The do-good, feel-good philosophy I speak of has been seen all over

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Free Magazine and USA News

Uncategorized / Dr. Tanya Finnie

I just returned from a month in the USA, where I attended and spoke at the CQ (Cultural Intelligence) Summit. The summit theme was inspired by David Livermore’s new book – Driven by Difference – How we can we fuel innovation through diversity. There was also an interesting focus on domestic diversity at the summit. Often when we

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