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, based on their beliefs and values, we can hopefully knock [...]
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 classes, one-on-one consulting and online tutorials. Previous clients include Apple, [...]
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 used for it to scale. Adding communication, resource alignment and [...]
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 of us do business across cultures and far-flung offices, every [...]
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, and seen by almost sixty million people worldwide. So how [...]