Archive for April, 2007

Get Ready for China!

Friday, April 27th, 2007

One of many many things that I learned traveling and training in China and Taiwan is that there are significant opportunities for those of us in the educational and training industries to contribute and to learn from the Chinese. The people I met are industrious, hard working, passionate, and making money! The women right [...]

When White’s Not Right

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Color symbolism changes from culture to culture. One of my Chinese colleagues told me that wearing all white clothing is a definite no-no when going to a party for an older person because for the Chinese, white is the color of funerals and death. White is used to express sorrow and grief. For this reason, [...]

What Successful Global Managers Possess

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

From Mary Teagarden, a professor of global strategy at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, in Phoenix, AZ: “What is essential in a global environment is the ability to work with individuals, groups, organizations, and systems that are unlike our own,” she says. “We must also understand what differentiates people and what unites them. [...]