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Why You Need to Stop Teaching Cultural Differences

By David Livermore, PhD

Culture Matters at Talent 2025

CQC partners with one of the largest K-12 School districts in Texas

Does Your Multicultural Fair Make Any Difference? How to Measure Progress in Becoming a Culturally Intelligent Institution

October Corporate Client Team Updates

Just Released: Developing CQ Workshop 2.0

5 Growing Pains of Global Businesses

CQ Summit 2019

CQ Center Partners with GIBS in South Africa

CQ Center Partners with Purdue University to offer First-Ever Free MOOC

EQ Does Not Equal CQ

Cornell University Makes the Business Case For CQ

September Webinar: Enhance the Study Abroad Experience

Partner Spotlight: Constellation Brands

When “Culture Fit” is Code Word for Affinity Bias

How do you build a Culturally Intelligent Organization? Part 2: Champions Drive Change

Client Spotlight: Qatar Airways

CQ Center continues to expand work in K-12 Space

CQC at SHRM 2018

Culture Fit vs. Authenticity: When Being Yourself Collides with Organizational Values

culturalQ.com has been updated!

CQC at Indeed Interactive

CQ Corporate Partners Brainstorm at Harvard

The Case for Diversity: Social Justice or the Bottom Line?

CQ Center at 2018 NAFSA

CQ Highlighted at top U.S. university conference

A Collection of Master Minds

Cultural Bloopers & Misgivings from an Indian Visiting the U.S.

7 Questions to Assess Your Perspective Taking

Education Partners: Looking to Scale CQ across your Campus or School District?

New Tools Available for Corporate Partners!

Unconscious Bias: Not Just An Adult Problem

CQ University Webinar: Unconscious Bias on Campus | February 21 @ 2pm EST

First Unconscious Bias Certification of 2018: Miami | 13-14 March

“Aha” Moments for a New Year: A Personal Reflection

Join us for the first Certification of 2018 in North America!

Is 2017 Done Yet? Brace yourself…there’s more to come!

In the Spotlight: Sidra Medicine

What’s the #1 Conflict on Diverse Teams?

Next CQ Certification: Kuala Lumpur | 22-25 January 2018

OSU Takes Commitment to CQ and Unconscious Bias to Next Level

University of Michigan Ross School of Business’ Efforts to Develop Students’ CQ Reaches Milestone

The Benefits of a CQ Audit™

Featured Client: Kent County

Just Released! 2018 Certification Offerings

How do you build a Culturally Intelligent Organization?

Harvard In-House Unconscious Bias Certification Program a Huge Success!

August Corporate News Updates

Charlottesville, Google, and why some need CQ more than others

CQ Assessment Used in Fulbright Scholars Pilot Program

Featured Client: Republic National Distributing Company

Next Public CQ Certification – Dubai, Sept. 25-28

My Top 10 Experiences in Cuba

A Black Woman’s Advice to White Professionals

Next Public Unconscious Bias Certification – Chicago, Oct. 16-17

A White Guy’s Humble Advice to Black Professionals…

CQC at NAFSA

Wait, What? What Smart Phones do to our CQ

David Livermore interviews Lynnette Collins, Diversity Leader at Amway

How to Facilitate Productive CQ Conversations

CQ Center Expands Work in Secondary Education

CQ Assessment Now Available in Japanese and Spanish

2017: A Year Made for CQ

We’re All Scared of the Same Things…or Are We? Emotional Differences Across Cultures

Starbucks adds CQ Certification to Diversity Program

CQ Certification & New Unconscious Bias Certification Announced for 2017

US Department of Defense adopts CQ to evaluate cultural training programs

Weird, Rude, or Different?! Awkward Cross-Cultural Moments

Diversity Fatigue

Watch TV and Improve Your CQ? 5 Reasons Why This Can be True for You!

Higher Learning Commission approves CQ as a Quality Initiative for Accreditation

How Stress Can Lower Your Cultural Intelligence

Unconscious Bias on Campus: Yes, it’s Real

Assessing Special Forces’ CQ

Cultural Intelligence 2.0: New Insights for Measuring and Improving CQ

Have Lunch with Your Other and See What You Learn!

Driven by Difference, featured in The Economist

Coca-Cola equips another group of high potentials with CQ

Academic Review of 10 Cultural Competency Assessments

CQ Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology

Adapt but Don’t Overdo It

When Does Cultural Immersion Go Too Far?

Book Launch Party–April 14, Grand Rapids

Why do all the Chinese students sit together?

Oscars So White? Welcome to the Film Industry!

New Book on Culturally Intelligent Innovation

The Power of Attention for Culturally Intelligent Innovation

Dealing with a Different Sense of Urgency Across Cultures

The Dilemmas of a Traveling White Guy

What Diversity Matters Most?

How to respond to low CQ, racist comments, and Facebook rants

Top Two Reasons Organizations are Building CQ

Growing Up Between Smalltown USA and Singapore

10 Questions to Consider When Negotiating Across Cultures

Cultural Intelligence and the Afro-centric Worldview

Four Myths of Global Leadership

Culturally Intelligent Leaders Know When it’s “Cultural” … and when it isn’t.

Cultural Intelligence in an Age of Terrorism

High CQ Prepares Youth to Compete with Robots for Jobs

Teaching English with Cultural Intelligence

Respect Is Not Enough

I get it. I’m biased. So now what?

A Culturally Intelligent Way of Handling the Elephant in the Room

5 Things Culturally Intelligent Universities Do

10 Things Culturally Intelligent Travelers Do

Sit Still and Improve Your CQ: The Power of Reflection

New Study Reveals International Travelers Receive More Job Offers

Don’t Treat Your Customers the Way You Want to be Treated

How CQ could have kept a British expat from getting chased out of Singapore

Culturally Intelligent Chit-Chat

10 tips for Effective Communication in English with Non-Natives

Why You Shouldn’t Adapt to Other Cultures

How Facebook Develops its Global Leaders

Four Myths of Global Leadership

What’s Indian Culture? A dive into domestic diversity

Assessing CQ by how people talk

Using “What If” Questions to Prepare International Travelers

Why You Need an Empty Chair at Important Meetings

Why do Chinese businessmen insist on getting you drunk?

How to Create a Culturally Intelligent Organization

How Smart Phones Lower CQ

Cultural Intelligence is NOT the Point

2nd Edition of Serving with Eyes Wide Open Releases Today

Tips for Overcoming Jet Lag

An Irishman Learns to Save Face in Asia

Stress Tests your Cultural Intelligence

Getting a Culturally Diverse Group to “Speak Up”

Good Job: Culturally Intelligent Compliments

Impatience Undermines Your Cultural Intelligence

Here’s how Millennials Think. Or is it?

Cultural Protocol for Runners

What living in Saudi Arabia and Grand Rapids have in common

What CQ Scores Matter in an Economic Recession?

Overcoming Delays: Managing Follow-Through Across Cultures

How do you meet deadlines when working cross-culturally? Seriously—how do you do it?

Presidential hopefuls are reviving the Ugly American Reputation

China Through the Eyes of a German Expat Spouse [guest post]

One Noun. One Verb: Speaking to Non-Native English Speakers

Why have a meeting? Depends where you’re from!

Why thinking too much can get in the way of Cultural Intelligence

Learning and Training Development Survey

The Amazing Race to Study Abroad

When Niche Marketers Go Too Far

The Spirit of Cultural Intelligence

Why We Need Stereotypes!

Can you really be a “Global” Leader?

In a Global Economy, Can you Trust your Gut?

Spicy food in the Tropics

This is your Brain on Culture

Now Available: THE CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE DIFFERENCE

Sex, Spicy Food, and Parenting: Behavior Modification Gets a Bum Rap

Using Cultural Intelligence to Grow Business in Emerging Markets

Cultural Intelligence: The New Link to Creativity

Faulty Assumptions About the Japanese Response to the Tsunami

CEO Survey Supports need for CQ

Why Cross-Cultural Training Could Be a Waste of Money

WHAT CAN I DO?! Making a Global Difference Right Where You Are

Moving Beyond the Fluff in Intercultural Training

Observations from a Sunday afternoon walk around Accra, Ghana.

Cultural Intelligence: A better way to fly!

Chinese poet asks, What Do You Really Want From Us?

My 1 hour interrogation at U.S. Customs

Politics of China Bashing

Same Calling. New Platform.

CQ: The new IQ for American students competing in a global marketplace

Lessons from India: Social Profitability

Prop 8. Immigrants. Ground Zero Mosque.

Contest: Come up with the title for the next CQ book and win $50!

Does political correctness promote or hinder CQ?

Is it a Bribe or a Tip?

Is the “Ugly Chinese” replacing the “Ugly American”?

Push or you won’t get a seat

5 strategies to avoid being arrested when you volunteer internationally

Executives Cite 5 Reasons they Need CQ

Why Google Shouldn’t Bully China

CQ Train-the-Trainer | May 12-13

Cross-Cultural Trends for the Tens

Cultural Intelligence: Nice Lofty Ideal or a Key to Survival?

5 Global Questions for CEO’s

No Worries Mate! (Maybe)

The Changing Face of U.S. Government

Book tour continues

The desperate need for religious freedom

Cultural Intelligence and Negotiation

Implications of CQ for HR professionals

2016 Olympic Blues

Religion and international business

Good intentions go ratty

The cost of bartering

What’s your CQ and why should you care?

CQ for Public Speaking

Reading Recommendations

Why the U.S. health care debate could kill your international work

Reading Recommendations for Europe??

Online CQ Assessment

The Big Mac Index

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