The Boston Globe published an interesting article yesterday about brain research on the differences in perception between Westerners and Asians.* The article cites several examples of differences in perception from earlier experiments, and then talks about recent research with brain scans that show differences in the way we actually use our brains, even in very [...]
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One of the themes that comes up often in our work with globalizing businesses is the importance of creating a “soft” infrastructure that supports effective global teams. By soft infrastructure, I mean things like global team communication processes, employee orientations for new countries/cultures, knowledge repositories, online employee directories, city guides for visiting employees, etc. These [...]
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I love it! The Wall Street Journal had an article yesterday about the challenges of dressing appropriately for doing business in different countries, in their fashion column. My male colleagues often think this is minor, but the reality is it can be quite tricky for women who travel internationally for business, and [...]
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