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Culture : Born or bred.

As we work on our NPD strategy one of the recurring questions has been whether we build it around the existing culture at our externship A company or aim to modify certain ingrained practices and ways of doing things, in 3 months and working in a consultative...

Published 21-Feb-2011 2:00 by Joanne Hagerty (2010)

Filed under: Culture, organisational behaviour

Welcome to 2010, eh, 2011.

So far, Texas is amazing. Back in Scotland over Christmas, I had forgotten how Americans like to do things 'big'. Houston has prompted a rapid rescaling of 'normal'. Three of us (Mark, Joanne and I) are based at Shaw Pipeline Systems....

Published 07-Jan-2011 15:14 by David Toy

Filed under: Texas, Culture, Oil and Gas, SPS

Celebrate Success and Celebrate Failure

In my opinion this is quite a difficult concept for a Scot to accept and embrace. I think our innate modesty leads us to feel slightly embarrassed by success both for ourselves and for others, and our pride and the social stigma attached to it leads us...

Published 13-Oct-2010 4:58 by Mark Simmers

Filed under: success, Culture, Learning, Global

Final reflections on the USA

I thought a good way of signing off from my time in Boston was to share my impressions of the differences between the UK and USA, in business and some other stuff too! I'll start with things the US might learn from the UK - check out my next blog...

Published 03-Aug-2009 14:23 by Ian Webster

Filed under: Culture, Outliers, Creativity

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Culture : Born or bred.

Welcome to 2010, eh, 2011.

Celebrate Success and Celebrate Failure

Final reflections on the USA