What business people could learn from polyglot popstars
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The pop music industry has always been a very international enterprise and one that has proved to be adaptable to many changes and challenges over time. As British businesses face up to their own challenges in the ever-changing post-Brexit landscape, they could learn from the multi-million selling artists who dominate the charts. Musicians and singers […]
You might speak your client’s language, but does your body?
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As any body language expert will tell you, our bodies often sing from a totally different hymn sheet from our mouths. This could be seen most recently last week with the much-publicised meeting between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron.
The growth of the remote employee
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The nature of work is changing in an increasingly globalised and digitised world. Traditions such as the 9-5 office role or punch-in punch-out shift-work, while not exactly disappearing, are making way for the phenomenon known as remote working.
We’re still a long way from the star trek universal translator
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The technological revolution continues at pace, bringing us everything from kettles that can be controlled by our phone, watches that can pay grocery bills and cars that drive themselves. From a language perspective, we now have machine translation and interpreting systems such as Google Translate (enabling anyone with Google Chrome to decipher whole pages of […]
Mergers and acquisitions – and why they go wrong due to cultural differences
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been a headline news topic this week with the proposed supermarket merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda.
How cultural differences impact international business
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As companies continue to expand across borders and the global marketplace becomes increasingly more accessible for small and large businesses alike, there are ever more opportunities to work internationally.