The Cost of Getting Translation Wrong: $75M in Brand Disasters
From Pepsi's 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation' being translated as 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead' in China, translati...
Salary negotiation is one of the most culturally sensitive conversations in business. What works in New York can end a relationship in Tokyo. Here are adapted negotiation scripts for 12 different cult...
From Pepsi's 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation' being translated as 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead' in China, translati...
In Finnish meetings, long pauses are normal. In Japanese negotiations, silence indicates deep consideration. Western negotiators who rush to...
Indonesia, the world's 4th most populous country, is a market of extraordinary diversity. With 17,000 islands and hundreds of ethnic groups,...
White means purity in the West but mourning in China. Red signals danger in Europe but luck in Asia. Your brand colors are sending cultural ...
Turkey straddles Europe and Asia, and its business culture reflects both. Understanding this cultural duality is essential for companies loo...
Google's Project Aristotle identified psychological safety as the key to team performance. But creating psychological safety means different...
Estonia's e-Residency program and digital-first government have created a unique tech-forward business culture. The cultural values that ena...
Americans view contracts as final, binding documents. Chinese view them as starting points for an ongoing relationship. Germans expect preci...
Hofstede's Power Distance Index shows enormous variation in how cultures relate to authority. A leader who inspires in Sweden may intimidate...