When I recently wrote on “8 suggestions on behavior when conducting business in foreign countries” http://bit.ly/aBrsCv  one reader recommended that I write a similar piece on doing business in the U.S.   Here it is.
1. Learn to accept the informality of being called by your first name immediately. No disrespect is intended. Americans enjoy informality and [...]

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I was asked recently to share suggestions from my experiences in my international work.  Here are eight recommendations for conducting business in foreign lands.
1. Listen more than you talk. When you do talk, begin your suggestions, expertise, and advice with, “In some countries, we find that this works….”
2. Be happy to be there. Be more than [...]

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Dear Reader (as Stephen King likes to say) ~
My deep apologies for my lapse from contributing to my blog these past two weeks. I have been off the grid in the most literal sense – travelling throughout New England en route to my very rural summer setting – and surprised at how difficult it can [...]

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Charles Lindbergh remains one of America’s most admired entrepreneurs. This “painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh’s takeoff from Roosevelt Field, Long Island” and “mixed … with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources” is a rare view of this moment, according to Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in [...]

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I stepped into another world the other day – a place where there are no words for numbers higher than 3 or 4, a world with a simple god but no religion, with time but no calendars, a tribe with customs but no laws, a world of primitive peace, singing, dancing, storytelling and rational priorities. [...]

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The real creators of the National Parks are the entrepreneurs who followed their passions about protecting these wilderness places… millionaires, politicians and wandering students, the prominent and the unknown, those out for commercial gain and those dedicated to wilderness conservation. The idea and development of the Parks at the turn of the 20th century was [...]

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Someone asked me recently to offer some of my favorite tips for those traveling and working virtually with technology, in the U.S. and internationally. Here they are.

Do not depend on the infrastructure, electricity, phone lines, or Internet access in remote areas of the U.S. and in many international locations.
Carry currency adapters for conversion [...]

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