All Blog Posts Tagged 'culture' (31)

I am now 100 years old and look back at the past. I see that morals and customs of different cultures have existed not longer. This is very sad. The cities are crowded and multicultural. No city, and almost no country is characterized by its culture. For this reason we have try bringing people back to their roots. They have to learn that the world is not just about work and money but that it is important to continue to exercise customs and traditions. They must not lose the relation to the…

I think „ Don’t fight culture“ is a very important argument for social innovators. But it is also a barrier for radical innovations. In companies you will find often a problem called "not invented here syndrome". It says that the employees don’t accept the product from another company because they think that other companies can’t make equal good products as they do. The key to success for a social innovator is to understand the people (their needs, hopes and fears…), their culture (how they…

I think „ Don’t fight culture“ is a very important argument for social innovators. But it is also a barrier for radical innovations. In companies you will find often a problem called "not invented here syndrome". It says that the employees don’t accept the product from another company because they think that other companies can’t make equal good products as they do. The key to success for a social innovator is to understand the people (their needs, hopes and fears…), their culture (how they…

1. Problems are not always obvious from afar (You really have to live for a while in a society where no one has currency larger than a $1 bill to understand the importance of money via mobile phones.)

People often say: "i understand what you're going through" or etc. However people cant truely feel or understand something unless they actually do it.

Do not fight culture is a very important idea. If you take away somebody's culture, then they will forget who they really are.

If people forget who they are then there will be no diversity in the world. If there is no diversity then the world would be more boring.

Without diversity we would not think differently. It would be more difficult to come up with creative solutions to problems

Don’t fight culture. Stands to reason, but is so often the outsider's big mistake. However . . .sometimes it feels that culture is manipulated - and you almost need to be part of the culture to know which bits of culture are important and which are coincidental.

Preserving culture is important to everyone who is part of it, and that can lead to conservative thinking and a fear that innovations - perhaps all innovations - will undermine culture.

So…