by Robin Moriarty | Jan 30, 2020 | Work Life Conditioning
Given the number of places I’ve been and the varieties of experiences I’ve had, there were bound to be a few uncomfortable ones. Like being offered jellyfish and chicken feet as an appetizer. Or walking through a market with a bag of live frogs and pigs’ heads for...
by Robin Moriarty | Jan 16, 2020 | Work Life Conditioning
I have been focusing a lot on inclusive leadership lately, and I realized that part of being inclusive means becoming aware of implicit assumptions and biases when choosing mentors and mentees. So I wrote about it when I realized that by acquaintances in my own...
by Robin Moriarty | Dec 12, 2019 | Work Life Conditioning
One day, I was particularly stressed out. I was getting text messages and phone calls to my personal phone from work people. This is in addition to being double- and triple-booked for a whole week, and I was going crazy and seriously losing it. I was angry and...
by Robin Moriarty | Nov 27, 2019 | Work Life Conditioning
In many articles (including one in The New York Times by Tanya Mohn titled “Expatriate Spouses Struggle to Find Work Overseas”), the difficulties faced by trailing spouses to find meaningful work in a new country have been documented. This is undoubtedly true, and...
by Robin Moriarty | Sep 30, 2019 | Work Life Conditioning
In the 1960s, Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Michael Minkov did a seminal study on national cultures around the world. Their work defined six dimensions of culture that have been the foundation for much cross-cultural work that has come since. In my...
by Robin Moriarty | Sep 23, 2019 | Work Life Conditioning
While teaching cross-cultural leadership at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, I used “The Culture Map” by Erin Meyer at INSEAD as one of our core books. This book lays out a framework for navigating professional situations when working with...
