We mostly think that we ourselves are best in what we do, which is a fair standpoint taken, but the dimensional development of our global economy takes little care of this aspect. For the simple reason that the transparency delivered through the internet breaches boundaries and brings along transparency by nature.
Therefore it is more the important to start looking into the emotional aspects of people within different cultures and there lives to see whether you can or should connect to them and there markets to enable you to further support and develop your businesses.
So at first you have to make a decision and exclude the parts you like to exclude at this time. However, the exclusion will be included at some certain point in time as there is a merger (transition) ongoing whereby the offering of your help is needed to sustain humanity in a well working economical environment.
It is therefore, the more important that you, the one willing to extend your business into different markets & cultures, that you need to accept the market fully as it is, to learn to understand it. Only so, you can encounter with people and mutually make a change.
Well, what I like to say is that business, opportunities, changes or innovative products are in the end always deployed by people, meeting face to face, sharing ideas, creating a concept and deploying it into markets. Some call it C2C in another form it is B2B or B2C. One is true it is all arranged in one economical dimension.
Considering the mature markets and the existing transparency one better starts to give his trust to other cultures, different markets and respect it as one common good we all have. Only so, we can extend success in continuous changing markets and built a foremost better economical environment in which the value of people has the greatest degree of respect and responsibility.
With respective regards,
Hans Soentgerath
Dear Hans,
Great to find you here as well!
Not long ago I posted on the Call to Change wall my published article entitled “Cultural Diversity and Interdependence”.
To achieve high performance and quality one must go through the door of culture.
I offer passages from this article, as follows:
Cultural diversity “is a source of strength, market advantage and ever increasingly essential for collaboration—a key element of innovation.
Supply chains are increasingly complex with heightened risks. Our human interactions are an underlying cause. We need to seek unity in diversity by respecting and recognizing our freedom to develop our own identities, respecting and celebrating our differences.
Already, for a long time we live in a global world—interdependence. Let’s take a moment to look at interdependence as defined by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdependence
Jungian psychoanalyst Eugene Pascal wrote: “Human dignity is by and large a product of a naturally spontaneous expression of who we intrinsically are.” Consider what one does not know and understand, one can come to fear, hate and even attack. Fear and hate are products of ignorance.
In Deming’s Profound Knowledge Model, psychology is one of the 4 points underlying system, knowledge and variation. It is advantageous to learn the dynamics, in particular typology, or how your own individual psyche works and how psychic energies function in humanity.
Every individual, ethnic group and country has a unique contribution to make on the levels of personal, local, national and global in perceiving, evaluating and solving life's challenges. Understanding this reduces longstanding mutual conflicts, frustrations and risks.
Comprehending the affect of typology in the human family, allows one to move beyond arrogant tolerance. We can then see that we all are a part of global consciousness, each with our distinct contributions.
One of the primary methods of managing interdependence is intercultural dialogue. The need for this communication and intercultural competencies is evident. Skills are needed to manage differences creatively.
Benefits delivered are real dialogue, exchange of ideas, exploring varied perspectives and robust collaboration bringing creativity, depth, range, balance and innovation. When we allow differing perspectives, we stimulate exploration, increasing and expanding our options.
Diverse outlooks compel us to uncover potentially damaging implicit, inferred assumptions. We are freed up to synthesize new ideas combining options previously considered at odds. We are energized to develop processes capable of supporting innovative solutions built on consensus that are enduring.
The growth and complexities of a global economy and the coordinated efforts to respond to the financial crisis have increased the line of reasoning for a more sustained and systemic global cooperation.
“There is no animal or creature, no plant life, nothing in the hierarchy of Nature with which we are not intimately, spiritually interlinked.” The new sciences have proven we are all part of the same energy system and came from a field of energy that has no limit. We are interdependent and infinite in our abilities.”
My best and warmest regards,
Maureen Kelsey
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