Breaching the Culture Gap

Rising through the ranks of any company today increasingly includes the prospect of a period of work outside of your home country. The culture shock of this experience is the topic of an October 7th article on website ‘Marketing Week’.
Placements can vary from marketing research in China to an office-based role in the USA. To […]

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Globish….good, bad or ugly?

With the 11.5% rise of the Yen against the Dollar in 2010, many Japanese businesses face the problem of how to communicate their ambitions within the culturally distinct market of the West.
Is the solution to make English the compulsory language of communication for all global businesses or to implement ‘Globish’- an interlanguage variant on English […]

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