Common Sense About Culture
11 January 2013
In recent years, I’ve been asked many times by people to explain to them exactly what we mean by “cross-cultural training”. In all that time my standard reply hasn’t changed, and the knowing smiles and nods of recognition confirm this is something most people have experienced at first hand in their business careers! Put very simply – “it’s one thing to be able to speak Mandarin – it’s another thing altogether to know how your Chinese counterpart is thinking.”