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Development of Vital Skills. 56 99 6229 7840. Development of Vital Skills. 90% of CEOs believe if cross-border communication were to improve, profit, revenue and market share would all improve as well. Yet many are not doing enough to address the challenge. Competing Across Borders, 2012 The Economist Intelligence Unit. Communicating effectively in a foreign language for business and professional purposes requires much more than just learning words, phrases, language functions and essential grammar. ...

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Russia and the EU - Cross-Culture

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Laquo; How the West will meet and ultimately accommodate the BRICS challenge. The Quiet Colossus ». Russia and the EU. While migration and refugee matters top the list of pressing problems, of greater import and interest is the issue of future membership of the EU and its likely direction and criteria for admission. Ukraine and Turkey both bigger in area than any EU member are obvious candidates, as are smaller fry such as Albania, Maced...

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How Finns and French Interact in Business - Cross-Culture

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Laquo; Linguistic characteristics affecting people management. Cross-cultural factors in leadership in the Middle East ». How Finns and French Interact in Business. The prospect of a union between Nokia and Alcatel raises the question: How well will Finnish and French executives interact? 0160; What will YVES MARTIN, TAUNO TAHTINEN or RITVA VAULAMO have to do to combine effectively in an international team? Cultural traits attributed to Taun...

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Cross-Culture: Nationalities

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. How Finns and French Interact in Business. The prospect of a union between Nokia and Alcatel raises the question: How well will Finnish and French executives interact? 0160; What will YVES MARTIN, TAUNO TAHTINEN or RITVA VAULAMO have to do to combine effectively in an international team? Finnish team members’ characteristicts. Finland: Tauno Tahtinen and Ritva Vaulamo. Why is Finland dominating the field of mobile phones? While a Frenchman m...

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World Cup at home - Cross-Culture

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Laquo; The Quiet Colossus. Vietnamese values ». World Cup at home. As a native Brazilian - even though of long forgotten European origin - I would like to share with our overseas visitors a moderate optimism on our ability to charm the world both as football players and citizens, even if we have to rely on our jeitinho- the Indian equivalent of jugat , or the last minute fix. Well, Brazil as a country enjoys overall a great deal of sym...

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Cross-Culture: Language

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Linguistic characteristics affecting people management. Among the tasks of a manager are the necessities of instructing, motivating and leading his subordinates.  He may often lead by example, but as far as motivation and the issuing of directives are concerned, he will be heavily dependent on language. With increasing globalisation, problems will arise in the following instances:. A) when a manager is involved in international team building.

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Vietnamese values - Cross-Culture

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Laquo; World Cup at home. The Scottish Referendum a View from the North of England ». The Vietnamese cultural classification is basically reactive and Confucian influence is still strong. They are, however, dialogue-orientated, this partly due to the French influence and, in the south, prolonged contact with the Americans. The list of values and core beliefs below straddles northern and southern concepts:. The societal structure showed stron...

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Independence or Union? Some cross-cultural reflections on the Scottish referendum debate - Cross-Culture

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Cross-cultural analyses of current affairs and everyday events. Laquo; The Scottish Referendum a View from the North of England. Linguistic characteristics affecting people management ». Some cross-cultural reflections on the Scottish referendum debate. It is very difficult to see a warm rapport towards the English developing short-term in Scottish minds that were not already persuaded that way. However, some genuine efforts by the English to understand, value and embrace Celtic culture more would be...