Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory

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So this is, I think what you're referring to is a cultural anthropological tool, um, that we talk about from, um, uh, from... it's called Hofstede's Power Distance Index, PDI.

[laughs] And, um, Hofstede, uh, it, it actually comes from the business world.

So kind of after the, I think it's after the Second World War, um, that they s- people start realizing, you know, there, there's a lot of business going on between, say, the USA and Japan and-

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When I say that, you read that completely differently to how I meant that, and you thought that was disrespectful, and I thought I was being respectful." And so they start working out, hang on, we just, there's some cultural stuff that we need to do here.

We need to do some work on this.

So Hofstede develops that, um, and then it's sort of been helpful in the, in the missions world as well.

I think everybody gets it right in lots of ways and also needs to work in other ways.

So when you're working with, for example, if you're in places like Finland and Estonia, if you go to Hofstede's, you know, cultural, um, dimensions, it's like low power distance.

So there's, there's an equality there.

Nobody thinks they're too big, mu- much bigger than another person.