Thursday, August 19, 2010

In the land of Arabs!

Dear Dad,

Berlin is wonderful, people are nice and I really like it here, but Dad,I am bit ashamed to arrive to my college with my Gold Mercedes, when all my Teachers travel by train.

Your Son

Nasser

Sometime later Nasser gets reply to his e-mail from his Dad:

Loving son,

Twenty Million Dollars transferred to your account, please stop embarrassing us, go and get yourself a train too.

Your Dad

Be original! Enjoy Life!

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.
The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again.

The local paper read:
PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
The next day, the local paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey.
The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.

The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day:
NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.

The bishop fainted.

He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.
The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.

The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The bishop was buried the next day.

Being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery . . .
So be yourself and enjoy life.
Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot happier and live longer!!



Sunday, August 1, 2010

Cultural diversity-"My work Place"

I work for a compnay in Doha, Qatar. I come from a place where the work culture
was completely different from where i work today. Like any organisation mine
is not a 100% corporate paradise. However, what makes it unique is the diverse
culture of population you come across.There's the Adult culture, There's Urban
culture, and the more rural culture. What makes it so rewarding is, We live,
communicate, and share knowledge in these non exclusive cultures.

Multiple cultures exist within any of the present sucessfull enterprises in the world.
The boundaries may be geographic—like Qatar/Dubai North/South Korea.
Or they may be around language—where a concept or word, when translated,
can have a very different meaning. Or they may be cross-discipline, like
Customer service/Marketing, or even support staff.

What intrests me are the challenges and opportunities in cross-cultural teams.
How we recognize them and deal with them successfully to maximize team
potential? Thus success in any multi national come lies in the fact that,
How do organizations build teams across ,linguistic cultures, and across
geographies?

Our current workforce is an increasingly multicultural and culturally diverse
environment in which people from often significantly different social, racial/ethnic,
sociocultural, national, and even linguistic background meet, interact, and work
together to achieve personal and organizational goals and objectives.

Looking at this it is very important to examine how cultural diversity impacts
upon the workplace and to develop strategic practices that will minimize any
possible tensions emerging from cross-cultural interaction.

The respect and tolerance shown to each other within the company reflects
upon the company's Image in this cross cultural life.