Working with different cultures

If you would like to learn something about countries you do business with, you might like Kwintessential’s country profiles. Reading through the profile for Germany, I was reminded that you should never give lilies or chrysanthemums if you’ve been invited...

How to stay cool, calm and collected

What can we do in the middle of a challenging or frustrating situation to stop our current thinking pattern? Cesar L. Rodriguez tells us to use a technique from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) called “pattern interrupt”. So when we’re in annoying...

Not your twin

Do you have any idea how you would translate the German word “Doppelgänger”? You might be surprised. It’s “doppelganger”. A doppelganger is a person who looks so much like you that it could be your twin. You might like to read this report...

A simple writing tip

A German colleague of mine invited me to attend one of his workshops. He used an abbreviation (that is a short way of writing a word or a phrase) that I was not able to understand. I had absolutely no idea what his workshop was about. I’m sure he didn’t...