Japan is now the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and Western teams keep losing deals on the same six cultural misreads. Here is what actually closes business in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka ...
Japan is now the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and Western teams keep losing deals on the same six cultural misreads. Here is...
Synchronous meetings across 8 time zones don't work. The companies succeeding with truly global teams have rebuilt their entire operating mo...
In Japan, gifts should be wrapped immaculately and presented with both hands. In Saudi Arabia, gifts should never be given at a first meetin...
Every cultural intelligence professional faces the same challenge: proving ROI to executives who see training as a cost center. Here's the d...
The thumbs-up emoji means 'OK' in the US, is considered rude in parts of the Middle East, and is increasingly interpreted as passive-aggress...
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While everyone focuses on the obvious markets, US, China, India, Germany, three countries with combined populations of 500 million people ar...
The meeting went well. Yamamoto-san smiled, nodded, and said 'we will consider it.' Six weeks later: silence. The deal was dead before the f...
Most international partnerships fail in the first year. The pattern is predictable: excitement, misunderstanding, frustration, dissolution. ...
