3. Cultural intelligence - What is culture

Join Ting and Dr. Catherine as we discuss how culture is formed and how making sense of our cultural experiences inform our cultural intelligence.

In this episode, we talk about culture as solution to problems, how the physical environment of a country shapes its culture, why culture is hard to see, our personal experience of working in teams with little hierarchy, how power can shape communication and why in some cultures people are comfortable interrupting each other while other cultures speak in turn, how to tease out "professional courtesy" from cultural behaviors, how individualist and collectivist cultures differ, how to know if a culture is collectivist,  how different cultural characteristics work together, and how culture change.

We share many personal stories from growing up in the Philippines and in France, living in Singapore, traveling around the world, and working in international organisations.