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The Cultured Business is a column that discusses the issues relevant to working across the cultural boundaries that affect an organization's bottom line. Articles emphasize business in the China Market, a special focus of Silk Road Advisors. The column explores and advises on:
"I have truly enjoyed reading your articles posted on the Silk Road Advisors web site. I find the articles well written, articulate and having a practical voice that international business readers can relate to." - Nash M., New York City, USA
William R. Dodson writes the columns, which are syndicated on the Global Perspectives pages of the American Management Association's website (www.amanet.org). Mr. Dodson is Managing Director of Silk Road Advisors, L.L.C. He has over twelve years experience as a management consultant specializing in building and improving working relationships to reduce the cost of doing business across cultures. Email Mr. Dodson at sradvisors@gmail.com with your questions, responses to columns he's written or with your own cross-cultural experiences in the workplace. Here are the latest columns:
The Sink or Swim Approach to Managing Foreign Operations - Building and managing foreign operations involves more than just one man in an office. Establishing Trust to Do Business Across Cultures - Chinese business people have to know you to trust you. Then the business follows. One Small Step: Convincing Management to Invest in New Foreign Markets - Internal guerilla marketing tactics to get your company to think globally. Tongue-Tied - When business counterparts use their own native language in front of you.
Walk the Walk in Foreign Markets -
Faceless in China - How to get some respect when doing business with Chinese.
Trust Me: When Government Projects Lack the Will of the People - How governments around the world can use corporate approaches to change to serve their constituents.
How to Design Products for Success in a Foreign Market - The Joint Product Design (JPD) process ensures all the stakeholders in the product development lifecycle understand and commit to the cultural requirements of a foreign market.
It's About Time - How to focus the efforts of staff from cultures in ... which ... time ... slows ... down .... Phone Conferences Across Cultures - How to structure international and cross-cultural phone meetings for effective dialogue. Facilitating across Cultures - Ever wonder why employees from other cultures don't participate in facilitated sessions? Read on ... Mixing Work and Pleasure across Cultures - Take that mid-day beer with your colleagues to increase productivity at work. How to Manage Teams that Speak English as a Second Language - Part 2 of 2 on the best practices of Managers who manage ESL-staff.
How to Manage Teams that Speak English as a Second Language - Part 1 of 2 on the best practices of Managers who manage ESL-staff.
What's Your Curiosity Quotient? - How to engage your foreign business counterparts.
Time Zoned - Projects that cross national borders to beat the clock can make a zombie out of any project manager.
How to be a Bad Sport in International Business - In honor of The World Cup: how pesky sports metaphors can interfere with business communications across cultures.
I Don't Want to be Like Mike - Businesses cannot afford to ignore the trend of immigrants to maintaining their own cultures in their adopted countries.
The "Model" Minority - Part 8 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Stupid is as Stupid Does: How Chinese Respond to Language Barriers - Part 7 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
All in the Family: Chinese and Hierarchy in the Workplace - Part 6 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Total Quality Management, Chinese Style - Part 5 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Ingenuity with Chinese Characteristics - Part 4 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Whither the Groupie? - Part 3 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Face: The Facts - Part 2 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
Getting Past the Silence - Part 1 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype
"I thoroughly enjoyed this story [Getting Past the Silence]..." -S.G., Iowa, USA
The Stiletto and the Balloon: Information Processing Across Cultures - Why do some cultures take so long ... to decide?
Babylon Rising - Within twenty years the language of business will no longer be English
The Tower of Babble - How differently do cultures conduct meetings?
A Word to the Lingua-centric - Managing staff who speak English as a Second Language
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