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Tips for Improving Organizational Culture - Improving organizational culture has become a necessity in today's ever-changing business environment. People want to work for a company where they can be happy and balance work and life. Organizations who treat their members well have experienced a better retention rate, an increased productivity and a happier overall culture. Improving organizational culture can be a big challenge for the organization and its members. Focusing on a few important steps will help you get started in improving organizational culture Getting the right training for your employees is the first step toward improving organizational culture. The other important steps for enhancing organizational culture include: - Analyze your organization's existing culture and compare it with customers' expectations and perceptions. - Form a diverse team of interested and enthusiastic people in an organization to enhance the organizational culture. NTDTV's Global Chinese New Year Spectacular - A Gift of Healing - I want to share some of my reasons for sponsoring New Tang Dynasty Television's (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular. Of course, I am Chinese, and the Chinese New Year is part of my tradition and heritage. I love the colorful costumes, beautiful music and dance depicting ancient myths and legends. It reminds me of stories from my childhood. In addition, the cause, the people involved and the performances themselves have touched me profoundly, they have a healing effect in more than one sense. Most people in the West don't know that traditional Chinese culture has really been destroyed by the communist regime. What people nowadays get in China is very shallow as it has been stripped of all its deeper inner meaning and is laden with communist party culture. Slaying the Evil Dragon - Like the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland, China has its myths and legends of dragons, some helpful and benevolent, and some not so. Of the evil variety, there's one that's been slain on stages around the world during the 2006 NTDTV's Global Chinese New Year Spectaculars. The performance is called "Nine Swords," and it obviously was one of the audiences' favorites as it receiving roaring applause. How You Impact Your Organization's Culture - Bob moved to a new company, and it wasn't too many days before he was invited to a meeting. The meeting announcement he received said that the meeting started at 9 am in room 105. At 8:55 he walked into an empty room. Frantic he went back to his computer to see if he had the details right. He checked and double checked and realized he was right - 9 am, room 105. As he briskly walked back to the meeting room he was puzzled. He thought, "Why was the room empty, when it is almost time for the meeting to start? Chinese Ancient Traditions Revived In Global New Year Shows - Two years ago some Chinese friends of mine took me to NTDTV's (New Tang Dynasty TV) live Chinese New Year Spectacular. It was a thrilling and enchanting music and dance performance, with traditional Chinese instruments and costumes faithfully recreated from old manuscripts, paintings and pottery. The dragons, drums and dancers all evoked the grandeur of China's great dynasties and legends of remote history. Ancient Chinese traditions speak of harmony between heaven and earth. How to Shape Culture for Success - You Can't Ignore the 800 Pound Gorilla - Have you ever implemented a new procedure only to find that no matter what you did to enforce it, no one followed it? If so, it's likely that you were bumping up against the 800 pound Gorilla of corporate culture. Whether you have one employee or thousands, there is "the way things work around here." That's your culture. Culture is a set of shared assumptions and unwritten rules - a force field that shapes how we do things. Since your culture shapes how things are done in your organization, it can make a direct contribution to your bottom line. The Erhu - China's Haunting Two String Fiddle Comes to Broadway - I felt touched but unable to express myself in words. It seemed like listening to a story that moved every parts of my heart. I even wanted to ask, what happened after that? when the music finished. 7 of The World's Luckiest (and Unluckiest) Numbers - From the first day that man began to study numbers and their significance in every day life, some numbers have been assigned certain characteristics. The Idea Economy - Adapt Your Skills and Your Culture - Sick of the whole "new economy" thing? It was a bit overdone in the 90's... But there is some relevance to the "new economy" as we navigate continuing economic shifts. I'm not an economist, so this isn't going to be a diatribe about macro economic theory or some such thing. For me, as a businessperson, it boils down to "corn, cars and concepts." First, we had the agrarian economy - all about corn. People related to their families or village. Their lives were pretty much regulated by Mother Nature. Get up with the sun, milk the cows, work the soil, go to bed with the sun. Why Employ Workers from Bulgaria and Romania? - A few interesting facts about Bulgaria Until 1989 the country was known as the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) and was ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). Why Employ European Union Workers? - Passport controls have been abolished for most member states, and custom checks were also abolished at many of the EUs internal borders, creating to some extent a single space of mobility for EU citizens to live, travel, work and invest. Poland and Latvia currently have the lowest standard of living and Turkey, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia are officially recognized as potential candidates. Costa Rican Culture - Culture is synonymous with variety as is the land of Costa Rica. And in this country touching on the topics of race, food, festivals, and customs just scratches the surface of how colorful the culture if this land is. Costa Rica has a strong and efficient national education system, with its citizens maintaining a 95% literacy rate. Indonesian Shamanic Methods of Fasting and Austerities - Fasting and asceticism are essential practices in Javanese Kejawen and shamanism--especially Indonesian shamanism. Most of the unusual and unique powers acquired in Indonesian occultism are dependent upon the mastery of these disciplines with their many forms and variations. Another important factor that must not be overlooked in the acquisition of these occult powers is the knowledge of the correct timing such as the proper month and day which magickal rites and disciplines are to be commenced, and this is intrinsically linked with the Javanese calender; this however, will not be dealt with in this article for it is beyond its scope. We will mainly focus on the many variations of fasting and the austerities carried-out in Javanese mysticism/occultism. Superstitions of Indonesia - In this article we present a collection of local "superstitions" in Indonesia regarding everyday life and the meanings of the omens of Nature. Avoid sweeping the house at night as this would make it difficult to attract luck. Kujang - the Talismanic Sickle - There is a unique weapon that originates in Western Java, in the Pasundan (Sundanese) region. This weapon is called "kujang," (pron. "koo-jaang.") Lacking the proper English equivalent for this we have used the term, "sickle," eventhough its form somewhat deviates from the true shape of a sickle. Neither does it resemble the "scimitar" which curves convexly. In Indonesian a sickle is actually called "chelurit." The Javanese living in the eastern half of the Java island refers to the kujang as "kudi. Working with Foreign Cultures - Culture Cultures differ in how they communicate, how they use their time, and how they view themselves in terms of empowerment and decision making. These differences are likely to become apparent in business sessions with people from other countries. There has been considerable research done by anthropologists, psychologists and businesspeople on what these differences are and how we can learn to work effectively within other cultures, as will be described in this chapter. The main variables we will discuss are selected from the research of Edward Hall, Florence Kluckhohn, F.L. Strodtbeck, and Geert Hofestede. From Verbalism and Vocalism to Vandalism: Graduation of Anti-Agribiotech Activism in India - A few years ago activists, allegedly belonging to the Karnataka Rytha Sangha, the State farmers' organization, burned Mahyco's trial Bt cotton fields in Karnataka, India. On October 28, 2006, in Rampura village in Karnal, Haryana State, the Bharatiya Kissan Union (BKU), a farmers' organization, using some 400 local farmers torched Mahyco's Bt rice under field trials. Mahyco suffers a loss of Rupees one million, and needs to restart the process. A BKU leader threatened to burn all such fields in the country where trials are underway, and said that 'On Friday (October 27), we got a tip-off from Hyderabad that such tests were underway in Karnal'. In all probability, the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, an active anti-biotech group, could be the source of the tip-off. Native American Culture Activities - As many children learn about Native American culture during November, here are some activities and information about our first citizens. Do you like barbecues? How about clambakes? Well, the next time you attend one, thank the Indians! Native Americans invented them, along with chewing gum, ponchos, chocolate, snowshoes, parkas, and moccasins. Do research to find out what else our first citizens invented! Chief Seattle's Lesson Seattle was a teacher Who taught us how to care For all the living things on earth, Fresh water, and clean air. "The earth does not belong to us," Great Chief Seattle said. Building A Financial Services Sales Culture - A growing number of community banks are recognizing that new and more aggressive competitors are taking new business they "believed" they would or "should" have. To help combat this they no longer accept the practice of "business as usual. Speaking Japanese: Learning the Language and the Cultural Etiquette - The Japanese language is considered by many to be easy to learn. Whether you wish to speak Japanese for personal reasons like travel or for professional reasons, it is important for you to consider that learning Japanese etiquette is as important as learning commonly used words and phrases. Why is it that learning to speak Japanese is relatively easy? To begin with, there are only 5 vowel sounds: - A is voiced as "ah," or the way English speakers pronounce the a in "la;" - I is pronounced as the English e in words like "need" and "tea;

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