Culture

I spoke to the Project Management SIG this morning and we talked about handling conflict when managing people from all over the world with different values, expectations, and styles.
The group reminded me that some of the diversity is also about age groups and the way they relate to work and to authority.

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I recently worked for two very different companies: Company A, a huge, global company with a heavy reliance on contractors; and Company B, a small, regional company with a core staff that had been there for quite some time.  I was struck by the difference in my first day at each company… 

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When I worked at HP/Agilent back in the 1990’s we focused mostly on the US market and a bit on Europe. Now my friends who still work there are making frequent visits to India, China and Poland, markets that were too minuscule to warrant any significant R&D budget, and certainly not personal visits more [...]