Quotes about "Cultural Intelligence"

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ”

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. ”

I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way. ”

I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America's ports. ”

I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly. ”

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. ”

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. ”

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. ”

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm. ”

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ”