When preparing to do business abroad, especially if one doesn’t have experience, it is important to be aware of how one comes across. One...

When preparing to do business in a country with which you are unfamiliar or tangentially familiar, it is important to recognize the...

Over the last few years, it has become increasingly clear that the Chinese system is not as stable as it was at an earlier time. Starting...

A few months ago, I wrote a piece focused on what we had learned in the first 100 day of the war. In that piece, I listed the following...

Introduction: The war in Ukraine appears to be shaping up to be one of those epoch defining events in which history turns on to a...

Introduction: As time goes on, the date of February 24, 2022, appears increasingly to have a decent chance of becoming one of those dates...

One of the potential challenges people entering the international business arena for the first time is adjusting to a new culture....

One of the general factors that one sees in a rather large segment of the American business culture is what I like to call “home bias”....

One of the biggest challenges for a company when deciding that it needs to move overseas is deciding where to start. Many decide to never...

When doing business, especially in a production role, one of the most difficult things to do operationally is to establish a functional...

When preparing to travel abroad for leisure, Americans can often be heard saying that they want to “soak up the culture” of whichever...

One of the mistakes that many individuals make when attempting to do business overseas for the first time is to not give enough time to...

In the last 50 years, the world has seen a massive expansion in the industry known simply as ‘consulting’. As the world has become more...