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There is no safe place to hide from culture, whatever the industry. Chinese investors approach financial risk differently from Swiss ones.

Global people skills aren’t optional any more—2019 made this message clear. Global business reached managers of tiny startups in Mumbai or m

Foreign experts and businesses in China are a discriminated minority and a privileged elite at the same time. Foreign-Invested enterprises a

Globalisation in business, management and leadership often disorient the very people who are supposed to provide orientation to others. Take

In recent months, multinational offices in China’s first-tier cities have been beehives of activity. Minutes before our scheduled coaching s

Most multinational executives I coach or train into newly assumed expat jobs nurture two different but related ambitions. First, they want t

By the time Dave took up his post as the Shanghai branch’s General Manager, he had done his homework on Confucian leadership. Nurturing ambi

This year more than last, a global marketplace of goods, services and ideas will give you a tough part in a drama taking place on a divided

“They are quite polite and indirect,” the new project manager describes her local colleagues. “When they communicate problems, you have to g

The non-extroverted majority of ambitious business leaders consider networking, similarly to public speaking, a dreadful and inevitable pros

How much responsibility do you take as an expat leader in Asia? The communal and hierarchical values that dominate the continent often cast

Most firms select expat leaders based on technical competency and willingness, with an often complete disregard for personality or cultural

Corporate leaders are sent abroad to get things done, but they often create more problems than they solve. Wondering why they succeed in one

While China still hasn’t produced a Fortune 500 multinational CEO, the debate whether that would happen is over. Now it’s just a question of

In percentage of population, as many extroverts are born in Japan as in Brazil, but life takes them separate ways afterwards. International