Global Mindset Blog

Do you ever ask yourself why some colleagues seem to be able to handle stress? Or why, after a long day at work, your colleague asks who wants to go for a drink, while you long for a comfortable evening at home? These individuals do exist – those who seem able to manage all kinds [...]

Recently, a top executive at an infamous global high-tech firm said, “The problem in Silicon Valley is we promote excellent engineers and expect them to be spectacular managers.” He contended that without solid people and management skills, excellent engineers are set up to fail as managers. He went on to say that the qualities of [...]

Join us for #GlobalMindsetChat, Thurs 9am PT / 12pm ET / 18:00 CET This week’s topic: Effective & Productive Global, Cross Cultural Meetings by Evelyn Eury @SageStrategist Pitfalls of Global, Cross Cultural Meetings Global meeting planning across cultures has many of the same pitfalls as traditional meeting organizing but is complicated by the cultural nuances [...]

Alternatives to Traditional On-Boarding: Automation & Cultural Immersion I’ve spent the week talking about cultural immersion in organizations and how to integrate employees to an organization’s overall culture and way of operating. I was also privileged to listen to how companies can best automate the on-boarding process and the challenges they have to find the [...]

The McKinsey Quarterly sited a study where 76 percent of senior executives said they believe their organizations need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7 percent think they are currently doing so very effectively. However those companies who are getting it right in terms of global leadership development and acting as true global players are [...]

One of the biggest challenges for companies today is the creation of common values and behaviors that make up company culture and foster a sense of unified purpose amongst employees. Organizations struggle to stream-line, align and get buy-in to processes and procedures when they lack what we call: Cultural Continuity. The good news is you [...]

Guest Blog Post By Barbara Stein There are definitely a few things you need to know about Brazilians if you are moving to this amazing country, mainly if you are going to work with them. As a Brazilian, I might be a bit biased talking about it. Especially, because it’s very hard to identify traits [...]

Check-list for a Global Go-to-Market Strategy In our interest to help global companies understand how to go-to-market successfully, we’ve put together an initial check-list of what to consider: 1) Do you know where your growth market is?2) Have you identified key relationships (globally)? 3) Are you working with a culturally aware market research firm? 4) [...]

Three Global Business Trends 2013 by Melissa Lamson   1) Mexico is the next big growth market   Brazil, Russia, India and China are still strong and in some cases still steadily growing. However China has almost become too expensive to be considered a growth market anymore, with Brazil close behind,  and many companies are [...]

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