It’s funny that after presenting a workshop on communication styles, I’m obsessing about my communication style. 
I think it’s because I’m more aware now that I’m an “emotive-intuitive” communicator (I speak passionately about things I believe in and like to throw out big ideas as they come to me) and the “norm” for the business world [...]

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Call me crazy, but I’m not getting this new ad and/or strategy by Sid Lee for adidas Originals, that ties Beckham and Snoop Dogg to Star Wars…to sell shoes…to whom?
From a multicultural perspective, pairing Beckham and Snoop in a cool urban landscape teaming with life is certainly hip, bringing together pop icons from diverse genres [...]

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If you have to ask your mom if you can join a rap band, chances are you’re not ready.
But that was not the case for Yoram Bejorano, of the Hamburg based band Coincidence that plays Yiddish melodies, mostly from the past, when approached by Kutlu Yurtseven, a Turkish immigrant rapper from the Cologne based Microphone [...]

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Thanks to Intercultural Talk contributer Dillon, age 8, who is learning to recognize great multicultural advertising. 
“I chose it because it showed that in English culture it’s polite to finish everything, but in Chinese culture they think you want more if you finish everything,” said Dillon.
Look at the fun (depending on your perspective) that ensues when two cultures [...]

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I’m always leery of certain words that seem out of context when speaking in a language other than my own. So when the word “amor” (love) kept coming up in my conversation in Spanish with the Super Shuttle driver on the way to LaGuardia Airport Sunday night, I finally stopped and said “No comprendo”…I don’t [...]

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(If you’re my client reading this please skip to the second paragraph)
When Carolyn and I first arrived at Chamber Music America’s 32nd annual conference in New York City this past weekend, as “Jazz People” people there representing the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, we thought “what are we doing here?”
At the outset people self-identified as either [...]

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Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses.He doesn’t seem to be breathing, and his eyes are glazed.  The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services.  He gasps:  “my friend is dead!  What can I do?”  The operator says:  “Calm down, I can help.  First, let’s make [...]

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Hey you racist, why did you mention only Serena Williams race in last week’s post about the Mother Nature/Tampax ad?
Luckily that comment didn’t come in, but as I was riding the train (or the “L” as we call it in Chicago) downtown yesterday, I realized I did mention Serena’s race, but not “Mother Nature’s”.  Why?
As [...]

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When I first caught a glimpse of an ad on TV of Mother Nature trying to wake up someone who was sleeping, I thought it type-cast women with an out of date image:  Women can’t do anything when their “little gift” comes each month.
Seeing the vibrant Serena Williams, who is African-American, perfect as a dynamic, young [...]

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My college roommate used to love to start conversations at parties by asking “Do you think good and evil are objective or subjective? (This was the same roommate whose favorite Charades word was Dostoevsky’s “Gulag Archipelago,” but that’s another story…)
A lively conversation always ensued. Is murder always bad? What if the person is terminally ill? [...]

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