Welcome to everything with Val Podcast. Today we are discussing the Culture Map by Erin Meyer. The book focuses on Eight Scales. Each scale is a representation of how cultures tend to behave along a spectrum in comparison to another.

These Eight Scales include:

• Communication
• Evaluating
• Leading
• Deciding
• Trusting
• Disagreeing
• Scheduling
• Persuading

To help me discuss the book I am joined by Emma Bostian, Co-Host of the Ladybug Podcast.

Introduction about the author:

• Erin is a professor at INSEAD a world-renowned business school
• Educated professionals, specifically Managers around the challenges of working in multi-cultural and multi-national companies
• Wants to help those to achieve high performance and breed creativity around their ways of working
• Wrote the book in 2014 in order to share her findings and educate a wider audience on the ways to communicate cross-culturally
• Also co-authored the No Rules Rules describing and detailing the ways of working at Netflix alongside the Co-Founder of Netflix

Before we dig into our biggest takeaways.

Let's define culture first

• Culture - the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society

Part I: The biggest takeaways

Part II: Our reflections about the biggest takeaways

• Did you agree with her reflections?
• If you have any experience with her examples, what happened and how did it impact your professional experience moving forward?
• How have you experienced feedback?
• If you could change one thing about the book what would it be?
• National Culture will trump your Organisational culture true or false
• Use of food and drink to blur the message?

Part III: Your recommendations working across cultures

• What do you recommend is the best approach to working in a different culture?
• What do you suggest is best in practice working with multiple cultures?
• What are your biggest development areas in this moving forward?

Till next time have a great week!

Resources for the podcast to talk about the book:

Increase Your Team's Performance with The Culture Map

The Culture Map - Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across the World

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Connect with Emma: https://linktr.ee/Emmabostian

Edited by: Brogan Molly 

Music: Epidemic Sound 

Art: Emma Crimaldi 

Thanks, 

Valerie