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Decoding Cultures
Things often go wrong in international business and world affairs because people unwittingly interpret a statement or event in a way that is different from the way it was intended. Every 'community' has its silent language and its secret rites.
All cultures - national, regional, corporate, professional and more - are prisms or filters colouring peoples' perceptions of a single reality. And we are all programmed by the cultures we belong to.
At Europublic, we try to get beyond the prisms to the realities, understand the idiosyncrasies of cultures and how they work, and what we need to remember when we're dealing with them.
Our experience has produced this series of books on various aspects of the European and other cultures.
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We also provide a range of culture-related services to institutions and private-sector organizations. In short, we guide, mentor, instruct and publish, all around this one issue: decoding cultures.
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GPI Goes Virtual
GPI, Global Performance Improvement Ltd, EPs partner office in London, participated in LEARNTEC, the 18th leading international trade fair and convention for vocational education, learning and IT at the Karlsruhe ...
Net Expat
helps more than 200 international corporations and their expatriate families achieve successful expatriation through a series of Career & Life Transition programmes. By maintaining its focus and specialisation, NET ...
The challenges of institutional assignments
Here, the biggest challenge is to fight the demon of 'institution-speak': so much that is said and written is opaque, acronym-ridden and often repetitive. Why use a short word when a long word will do? Added to that i...
Beyond the Crisis: Design for a Sustainable Future
European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI)Third Flagship Conference: Beyond the Crisis - design for a sustainable future.
Guest speakers included:
Opening Session:Odile Quintin, Director General DG EACErik Spiekermann, Designer, Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation Linnar Viik, Member of the Governing Board, EIT (E...
A case of the tail wagging the dog The revelation that Greece had been fiddling the accounts for so long prompted one of its citizens to exclaim to a reporter that" we gave the world democracy, and we expect the European Union to support us!"Yes, well… If the democracy we're living with today is anything to go by, we don't have much to thank the Greeks for. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.Democracy in Europe is increasingly a case of the tail wagging the dog. Europe's political leaders seriously lack the courage of their co ... by rhill Readmore...
So who's to blame? Unless you happen to be American or Asian, there is no such thing as a 'typical' European. The reality is much more complex… and richer. But it does take time and experience to be fully aware of this reality. Its complexity comes out in practical matters like the comparative statistics for average payment terms in business transactions which vary enormously from North to South - Finnish companies have to wait three times as long if they export to Italy, for example. To some extent you see ... by rhill Readmore...
Richard Hill talks about his book: The Art of being Belgian
The book examines one of Europe's most fascinating but underrated cultures from the point of view of an intercultural expert and foreign author - one with intimate knowledge of every facet of Belgian life.