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How do we, as multinational business professionals, define the working week? When we consider it in terms of the number of hours worked, we encounter significant variability, raising questions about what this means for productivity, GDP, and employee equity. Recent data (Annual Working Hours by Country: Fascinating Insights – Infographic Website) reveals unexpected trends in…

As businesses expand globally and the marketplace becomes more accessible to companies of all sizes, the future offers increasing opportunities to operate internationally. The virtual working space has made multinational and cross-cultural teams more common, enabling businesses to tap into diverse knowledge and gain fresh perspectives on business issues. Yet, with these advantages of diverse…

A strategic relationship between France and India for France-India Trade The importance of the relationship between France and India for France-India Trade was made clear by the recent meeting in Paris between Emmanuel Macron, President of France, and the Indian Prime Minister, Narenda Modi. The Indian Prime Minister was the guest of honour at the…

If you are an Indian employee working for a multinational US based company, this article may make you feel validated. And, if you are a US based leader working with a team in India, you may learn something new. With almost two decades of experience working in corporate India for multinational US based companies, I…

Indians place great value on relationships in business, so it is essential to understand their rich and diverse culture, from the complex politics to the steep hierarchies in business to the influence of the family – and, of course, how to interpret the famous head wobble. Understand the complexity. There is a constant state of…

The U.S. has paved the way for many innovative ways of conducting business. While American businesspeople continue to look to the rest of the world when operating across borders, business culture in the USA has solidified into quite a distinct one. Business culture in the USA has largely been shaped by a continual search for…

As travel resumes and the world creeps towards a new normal, the big Indian cities have started seeing a resurgence of the expatriate population. With it, has come the vital need for cross-cultural awareness training to sensitise the new and in many cases, ‘naïve’ arrivals into daily living and working practices of a country, described…

As outlined by a former Canadian Ambassador to South Korea, Western firms should keep an open mind as the business culture is a mélange of the traditional and the international. It continues to evolve as South Korea integrates more into the global economy and demonstrates its formidable competitiveness and service orientation while rebalancing and placing…

Canada is a vast country with significant cultural differences across its regions and this combined with its multi-cultural orientation means that describing business culture in Canada is not an easy task. Canada became self-governing in 1867 and while it severed its direct colonial ties with Britain in 1982 it retains its links with the monarchy…