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Is office gossip a symptom of poor internal comms?
The grapevine can exert a powerful disruptive force inside organizations and its darker side, workplace gossip, can undermine communicator’s best efforts and, at its worst, create a spiral of negativity and cynicism that halts progress. Yet these are topics we rarely discuss,choosing instead t…
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Hofstede’s Cultural Differences
Fellow comms blogger Nik Ranken has produced a really useful overview of Geert Hofstede’s work on cultural differences. Culture’s Consequences, Hofstede’s groundbreaking book on organizational culture, was first published in 1980. It is based on a monumental study of a multinationa…