It's never easy prospering in a new city or a new environment. Understanding the value system of foreign culture will increase your effectiveness and put you at ease.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 04.05.2012
This acceptance of hierarchy leads to higher status differences, formal social relations and greater power concentrations among fewer people. It also means people who reside in lower rungs of the social order may have fewer perceived choices and rarely question authority.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.21.2012
Understanding how to work in different cultures, while not giving up your own belief system, will separate the mountain climbers who make it to the summit from those that are stuck at base camp -- and from those who plunge to their demise.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 04.23.2012
Once others see that the CFO challenges the status quo in an effective manner by working through the current management and executive processes, others will appreciate what a high impact and important job it is.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 03.24.2012
Almost half of major U.S. corporations received takeover offers in the 1980s. This fact is astonishing, but also one that indicates the fluidity of ou...
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 02.06.2012
Years ago, while comparing various economic systems, I learned that one indication of the economic values in a culture is the reaction of a person seeing someone else driving a Mercedes sedan.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 01.09.2012
Most people are familiar with mutual funds, a basket of different equities in which you can trade easily. Less people are comfortable with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 11.27.2011
Some people are quite smart, emotionally savvy, but refuse to take an educated risk to make a difference and turn their success into significance. We say they have a low Courage Quotient.
Glenn Llopis | Posted 11.02.2011
How to survive in this tough, fast-changing terrain? The following represent the six characteristics that define the immigrant perspective on business leadership that will be essential for business leaders to embrace in 2012.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 10.29.2011
Today, men and women who vote with an informed opinion and understanding of the difficult issues currently "shaking the globe" will shape the future.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 09.21.2011
For the U.S. to capitalize on a new willingness for a strong U.S. foreign presence, that presence must truly serve all people and our ideals, not our interest.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 08.21.2011
Researchers identified May 23, 2007, as the first time in history that city dwellers outnumbered the world's rural population. Because cities are growing, companies locate in urban areas as an efficient way to reach talent and customers.
Lotta Alsen | Posted 11.17.2011
The traditional way to define power is by using power symbols such as money, status, position, fame and beauty. I call that External Power. Yet there is another solution, which I call Soul Power. So what is Soul Power and how can you get more of it?
Sadhguru | Posted 05.25.2011
It is extremely important that the leaders of nations and large corporations take steps to ensure how they are within themselves, to ensure what kind of beings they are.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011
As you navigate our interconnected world, be mindful that humor is one of the most difficult cross-cultural skills to develop. Approach all people with a willingness to smile at them and laugh at oneself.
Fawn Germer | Posted 05.25.2011
China is neither all good nor all bad. It's a country with four times our population and ten times our problems. They're working on their issues.
Fawn Germer | Posted 05.25.2011
I am tell people to expect success, make decisions with confidence and to advertise their strengths. That is the exact opposite of the Chinese way, which is to be humble and sense that failure looms.
Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011
Corporations in the US have the same legal status as people, allowing them to engage in contracts, own property, etc. But if we're given these rights and privileges, we also have a responsibility to contribute positively to the community.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011
It is the culture underlying our international economic system we must examine, if we are to eliminate the root cause of this crisis.
Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the third post in my four part series exploring corporate social responsibility. So far I've discussed what corporate citizenship means in a g...
Joy Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
As a child growing up in the States in the 1970s, I was referred to as "chink" or "slant-eyes" by the other kids at school. We spoke Chinese at home, and didn't watch much TV.
Bill George | Posted 05.25.2011
Mr. Toyoda: You are the definitive leader of one of the largest and (once-) most trusted brands in the world. People expect you to act like it today. This is a prime opportunity to right the ship.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011
China is no longer as easy a place to do business as in the past. It is no longer a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, environment where the Chinese government ignores bad practices.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011
As the G-20 summit begins in London, I hope rhetoric is reminiscent of President Teddy Roosevelt who opened frontiers and created an awareness of our environment.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011
A housing bubble will burst in some cities in China. It will not be due to predatory or sub-prime lending as in the U.S. It will happen due to the law of supply and demand.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.04.2012