Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on learnings from Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map. This post is the fifth in an eight-part series and will focus on the Decision Making scale in the Culture Map (top-down vs. consensus-based).
The Deciding Scale: Top-down vs. Consensus-Based Top-Down Decision-Making: Decisions are made by individuals (usually the boss). Consensus-Based Decision-Making: Decisions are made in groups through unanimous agreement.
Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on learnings from Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map. This post is the third in an eight-part series and will focus on the Persuading scale in the Culture Map (inductive vs. deductive persuasion).
Some of this content is either directly taken from, or is a summary of, Chapter 3 of The Culture Map, with my own examples and perspective added for clarity.
Working on a team that is globally distributed is a great experience which also presents opportunities for deeper analysis and understanding. Since SPS is a multi-national, and thus multi-cultural, company, I will be writing eight individual blog posts which follow the eight scales of cultures outlined in Erin Meyer’s book, The Culture Map. For my Minnesotan and Canadian colleagues, don’t run away after reading this, but this post will focus on how different cultures provide negative feedback (coined Evaluating in The Culture Map).
Working on a team that is globally distributed is a great experience which also presents opportunities for deeper analysis and understanding. Since SPS is a multi-national, and thus multi-cultural, company, I will be writing eight individual blog posts over the coming months which follow the eight scales of cultures outlined in Erin Meyer’s book, The Culture Map. This post will cover the Communication scale of The Culture Map.
Much of this content is either directly taken from, or is a summary of, Chapter 1 of The Culture Map, with some examples added for clarity.
SPS Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and we have technology teams that span the globe in the following locations: Minneapolis, MN (USA), Little Falls, NJ (USA), Toronto, Ontario (CAN), Kyiv, Ukraine, and Melbourne, VIC (Australia) along with contracted teams in additional locations (India, Bulgaria, Mexico).
These team members are a blend of interns, part-time employees, full-time employees, and contracted team members. Some teams here work entirely within their local office, some have team members that span across a couple of locations and others span numerous geographic locations.