Embracing Cultural Differences Requires Challenging Your Mindset

Published: Oct. 1, 2014, midnight

b'Globalization is making our world smaller with cross-cultural situations at the core. Even though diversity can be a powerful source for creativity, adaptability and innovation, the potential for conflict increases, requiring even more attention to how we deal with differences and how people work together.\\xa0\\xa0 An \\u201call-or-nothing\\u201d thinking and a right/wrong mindset lead people to play blame games and get stuck judging others instead of looking forward to resolve the matter at hand. Can we get \\u201cunstuck\\u201d?\\n\\nLuis E. Ore is CEO of ORASI Consulting Group Inc., a training and development Consulting firm specializing in negotiation, consensus building, and dispute resolution. Luis Ore assists businesses and organizations with organizational negotiating capabilities building, cross-cultural and international negotiations, strategic alliances development, organizational changes, deal mediation, dispute resolution system design, foreign direct investment and international development, especially between the United States of America and Latin-American countries.\\n\\nYvette Watson is a graduate student at the University of Baltimore obtaining a Master\\u2019s Degree in Negotiation and Conflict Management. When she is not assuming the role of \\u201cgrad student,\\u201d she works full-time at a financial management firm. She is a mother and a wife who enjoys spending quality time with her family. Yvette obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree from Morgan State University, and would like to use her business background and conflict management studies in a way that incorporates various conflict management strategies into the workplace.'