• Cross-cultural skills are needed just to survive in today's global economy
• People from a different cultural prespective bring with them a different way of looking at things, and it's a diversity of viewpoints that should be captured and leveraged, not swept under the carpet
• People from a different cultural prespective bring with them a different way of looking at things, and it's a diversity of viewpoints that should be captured and leveraged, not swept under the carpet