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Jun 17 Cultural Intelligence - the future of management!

Last week I was fortunate to attend the 37th edition of the LocWorld. The biggest event in the Globalization / Localization industry. It took place in Warsaw, a beautiful Central European city where its people treated us really good; they were super friendly with us, very warm. I'm really thankful to the lovely Polish people I met there! thank you guys!

In my post this week I bring a summary of the presentation we gave on How to develop your Cultural Intelligence? My talented and lovely colleague Maria Kania-Tasak (@MariaTaniaKasak) and I talked about what we believe is the future of management. Cultural Intelligence is like a superpower :) Do you want to know about how to develop this superpower? Well, I have great news for you! I have created an eBook which is a summary of the presentation we gave and it contains some reflections and tips to work towards the journey of developing our CQ. I hope you like the summary. Enjoy!

Click HERE to download the eBook

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