Our willingness to take risks influences how we decide and behave in many situations. Culture certainly influences individual risk-taking. Lessons from an interesting conversation about global financial risk at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos. In the...
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Jack Ma on learning English and doing business in a global world
Right at the beginning of this short documentary, Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.com, the world’s largest online retailer explains how learning English as a free tourist guide for visitors that came to China had helped him not only to acquire vital language skills that...
Why speaking English is simply not enough when doing business internationally
English is the lingua franca of business, but if you use this fact as an excuse to avoid having to learn a language, you may actually lose out on a lot.
Why traditional language courses organised for busy corporates need a fresh approach
What can we do to make the language training process more effective in international companies and organisations? Here’s what I’ve seen over the past 10 years of working with corporate clients in the financial services industry in London. Big international...