Cultural Misunderstandings

Business and Cultural Misunderstandings

Author: Future Manager Research Center Being misunderstood, in everyday life as well as in the workplace, is part of our normality. Things get complicated when, in a professional environment, we relate to interlocutors who come from countries very far from ours and with different cultures and customs. In the world of economic interests, even a…

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Silence Culture in Cross-Culture Corporate Communication: the Japanese Case

Author: Future Manager Research Center You may think that silence during a conversation, especially if it is focused on business, is disorienting, as well as it is a negative signal in the development of a business deal. Actually, it has a huge strategic value when approached to some cultures and customs in which implicit and…

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Being Global is great, but what a Struggle!

Author: Future Manager Research Center The internationalization process of a company inevitably leads to important changes. For a leader it is a very delicate decision to make their company global and it is important that this evolution is not a long shot. Leaving aside the bureaucratic aspects of the issue, what emerges from the observation…

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