International Business Models: the Importance of Cultural Aspects

A few weeks ago, my friend, Prof. Cíntia Varandas Ladeira invited me to to hold a lecture for her Management courses students. She let me free to choose the topic. So I decided to intersect three of my main interests: Business Models, Internationalization, and Cultures. […]

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10 Practical Tips to Better Ask Questions [to Understand]

“Hey John, the [poor] way the new division is collaborating with us on pre-sales is actually worsening our conversion rate, right?”. If the aim was to genuinely better understand something, such a question contains at least three mistakes: have you spotted any one of them? […]

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Stroke Power: Doing Business in China, with Character

International Business Challenges. Let’s do a little experiment that will change your way of seeing the world, forever. Well… maybe this one was a bit of an overshoot. Blank Page For a few seconds, I’ll show you a short text. All you have to do is […]

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Headquarters vs Foreign Subsidiary: The 20-80-100 Rule

Credits & Sources: The text of this post has been originally published on this website Veja, Como nasceu a expressão ‘para inglês ver’?, http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/sobre-palavras/consultorio/como-nasceu-a-expressao-para-ingles-ver/ (in Portuguese) Wikipedia, Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_the_Portuguese_Court_to_Brazil (retrieved on 09-Dec-2016) Erin Meyer, The Culture Map – Breaking […]

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