Monthly Archives: March 2011

Congratulations to Atlas Service Corps on 5 years of change

By Sam Hedlund | Published: March 18, 2011

Earlier this week I went to the huge 5th birthday celebration of Atlas Service Corps, the multilateral service organization that sent me to work at an NGO in Colombia. Current and former Atlas fellows, board members, and supporters from around the world had a great time learning about one another’s work and looking back on [...]

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Great time at the IMI conference

By Sam Hedlund | Published: March 11, 2011

Wow, the Intercultural Management Institute conference was amazing. After two days of hands-on workshops, meeting people, and hearing from speakers like Lara Logan and Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, I’m too exhausted to write much right now, but you can see some of my real-time first impressions on twitter at @samhedlund. It was such a positive and refreshing event, and at [...]

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Headed to the IMI Conference on Intercultural Relations

By Sam Hedlund | Published: March 10, 2011

Today and tomorrow I’ll be at a conference by the Intercultural Management Institute. I look foward to writing about anything that I learn about cross-cultural success for people and organizations.

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Cultural seasons: Lent, Ramadan, and fiscal years

By Sam Hedlund | Published: March 10, 2011

Yesterday many Christians began of the season of Lent, which is a 40-day period of fasting or reflection leading up to Easter. This got me thinking about the two sides of how our concept of seasons and holidays affects our work and life in a globalized world. On one hand, our society has increasingly homogenized our calendar into interchangable slices [...]

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A snapshot of transience in DC

By Sam Hedlund | Published: March 2, 2011

In a world where people change cities, states, even countries so frequently, it’s important to figure out how to put down roots, get anchored, or otherwise find a way to not let all the mobility detract from your life and professional growth. A lot depends on incremental choices we make every day–choices that are influenced [...]