"Clean Your Plate" — in China? Not So Much.
Audio Podcast: THE HIDDEN WHY
In this episode, I speak with Stuart Friedman about cross-cultural dynamics in efforts to better understand how we can improve our relationships. Culture as he defines it is “how things get done.” In understanding how others do things, [...]
CRAIN’S – Interviewed in “If I Knew Then” Series
Background Global Context helps organizations improve their relationships with clients and other businesses in different parts of the world by helping them understand how people in those regions communicate. The company offers training [...]
Consulting Success Podcast w/ Michael Zipursky
AUDIO PODCAST: Less Marketing, More Consulting – How to Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman For every business, it is the network that is the biggest marketing tool [...]
BBC Capital – Do the Japanese Run the Best Meetings?
By Alina Dizik, 3 May 2016 If you want to get your point across in a meeting in Finland, keep quiet; and let your counterparts deliberate. Of course, that won’t work at all in, say, Canada. As more [...]
BroadwayWorld – WICKED Across Cultures; An Interview w/ Stephen Schwartz
The Broadway musical phenomenon that is Wicked has become the very definition of defying gravity. Not only is it the 6th longest running Broadway musical of all times, it's been translated into 8 languages, performed in 15 countries, [...]
Fortune.com – Giving a Presentation in Another Country
Imagine you’re on the way to dinner with a friend when he tells you he’d wait an hour at the restaurant if he knew it was for really great sushi. So you invest the time, finally get seated, [...]
Fortune.com: If You’re Petrified of Giving a Presentation, Read This
Glossophobia. If ever there was an innocuous-sounding phobia name, this just might be it. But as anyone who suffers from it knows, it’s anything but innocuous . More commonly known as the fear of public speaking, glossophobia can [...]
Interview on Forbes.com website
When I was doing research for “The Truth About Lies in the Workplace,” I was disappointed not to find more studies on how culture influences our definition (and experience) of being told a lie. I wish I had [...]