Top Ten CultureClues for Doing Business in China.
East/West, Yin/Yang: How to Manage the Cultural Differences in China.
How did you do on yesterday’s China CultureQuiz? Managing cultural differences when working around the world is more critical today than ever before, as most work will inevitably bring us all in contact with associates and colleagues who, largely because of their culture, think, behave and value things differently. You might have found the China CultureQuiz easy, hard or somewhere in between. But if you took the quiz, you were also well on your way to recognizing the importance of managing cultures, and bravo to you! In today’s world, crossing borders is easy, but crossing cultures can be hard. So here’s my follow-up article on the Top Ten Tips for managing those cultural differences that you are likely to run into when working with China. Beginning with #10 and working your way down to the super most important, here are the Top Ten cultural issues you’ll likely need to handle, plus some suggestions on how to do so successfully:
#10: The number 4 in Mandarin sounds very similar to the word for “death”, so it has, over time, superstitiously become a symbol for bad luck. There are few, for example, “fourth” floors in hotels in China (similar to the lack of “floor 13” in the West), and…
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