A few months ago, we were closing a milestone meeting with an Australian client at GoTeam when one of our Filipino team members cheerfully asked: “So when’s the next team dinner—the one you’re ...

Know thyself. Who would argue with the importance of such a maxim? It is the foundation upon which multibillion-dollar industries have been built, thereby making the case for raising self-awareness as ...

Misunderstandings in academe are common and often innocuous, yet they can create conflict. Perhaps someone misheard something you said, and now they are angry with you. Perhaps they heard your words ...

Language is the foundation of human interaction. It plays a central role in facilitating effective communication by allowing people to express their thoughts, share essential information and establish ...

At a psychology conference in England years ago, a woman said to me, "I'll knock you up in the morning." I was initially taken aback by her bizarre suggestion, but it did occur to me that I might not ...

There’s plenty of area of legitimate debate in clinical psychology and allied fields, such as psychiatry, social work, and counseling, but at least one proposition should not be particularly ...

Which college majors pay off? Is graduate school a golden goose or a money pit? Are Ivy League degrees usually worth it? The Wall Street Journal answers these questions—and many more—in a first-of-its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a joint press conference with Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov ...

Picture this: you’re trying to be polite, respectful, and culturally aware, but somehow you’ve just insulted an entire room of people, ordered something completely inappropriate for dinner, or ...

In part one of two, I share some embarrassing cross-cultural misunderstandings from my time living in East Africa. Hear about two of the biggest ones– and what they taught me about the country, the ...