Faceless in China  - How to get some respect when doing business with Chinese.

Trust Me: When Government Projects Lack the Will of the People  - How governments around the world can use corporate approaches to change to serve their constituents.

How to Design Products for Success in a Foreign Market  - The Joint Product Design (JPD) process ensures all the stakeholders in the product development lifecycle understand and commit to the cultural requirements of a foreign market.

It's About Time  - How to focus the efforts of staff from cultures in ... which ... time ... slows ... down ....

Phone Conferences Across Cultures  - How to structure international and cross-cultural phone meetings for effective dialogue.

Facilitating across Cultures  - Ever wonder why employees from other cultures don't participate in facilitated sessions? Read on ...

Mixing Work and Pleasure across Cultures    - Take that mid-day beer with your colleagues to increase productivity at work.

How to Manage Teams that Speak English as a Second Language  - Part 2 of 2 on the best practices of Managers who manage ESL-staff.

How to Manage Teams that Speak English as a Second Language  - Part 1 of 2 on the best practices of Managers who manage ESL-staff.

What's Your Curiosity Quotient?  - How to engage your foreign business counterparts.

Time Zoned    - Projects that cross national borders to beat the clock can make a zombie out of any project manager.

How to be a Bad Sport in International Business  - In honor of The World Cup: how pesky sports metaphors can interfere with business communications across cultures.

I Don't Want to be Like Mike  - Businesses cannot afford to ignore the trend of immigrants to maintaining their own cultures in their adopted countries.

The "Model" Minority - Part 8 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Stupid is as Stupid Does: How Chinese Respond to Language Barriers -  Part 7 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

All in the Family: Chinese and Hierarchy in the Workplace  - Part 6 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Total Quality Management, Chinese Style  - Part 5 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Ingenuity with Chinese Characteristics - Part 4 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Whither the Groupie? - Part 3 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Face: The Facts - Part 2 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

Getting Past the Silence - Part 1 of 8 of the series, The Bamboo Ceiling: Managing Chinese Employees Beyond Stereotype

"I thoroughly enjoyed this story [Getting Past the Silence]..."

                                                           -S.G., Iowa, USA

The Stiletto and the Balloon: Information Processing Across Cultures  - Why do some cultures take so long ... to decide?

Babylon Rising  - Within twenty years the language of business will no longer be English

The Tower of Babble - How differently do cultures conduct meetings?

A Word to the Lingua-centric - Managing staff who speak English as a Second Language