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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…

At Global Business Culture, we have run hundreds of training programs with clients in the US, UK and across Europe on the perceived challenges of working with remote teams in India.  Our clients come from multiple sectors and include outsourcing, offshoring and captive projects and we work with clients who are new to India and…

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…

Introduction The UAE has a diverse and multi-cultural society, and 80% of the UAE population are expatriates. As a result, the UAE is regarded as relatively liberal within the region and provides schools, cultural centres and restaurants catering for international cultures. While the population is incredibly diverse, it is important that you understand the UAE…

I had the opportunity to deliver a cultural awareness training to the executive leadership team of a technology company in northern California. One of their objectives was to understand how their company values aligned to other national cultures. When I first learned that radical candor is a company value, I smiled because they had recently…

Global Business Culture has worked on dozens of offshoring to India projects over the past fifteen or more years with multiple clients from a wide variety of sectors across numerous countries.  These projects have ranged from large-scale transitions through to more modest start-up type activities.  However, regardless of sector, size of project or country of…

Business culture in Brazil is the result of a veritable melting pot of the world and reflects multiple ethnic variations and diverse cultures. Immigration from Africa, Europe and Asia coupled with Brazil’s own indigenous origins have created a vast range of different traditions, beliefs, and physical appearances. Collectivism and Agency A collectivistic attitude and sense…