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The Importance Of Cultural Understanding In Business

YoungUpstarts

But in order to ensure that the 70 million customers it serves every day are treated with cultural respect, this fast food giant entrusts regional responsibilities to local managers. In fact, more than 50% of its restaurants are franchised, while menus are customised according to traditions and taste preferences.

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The Art of Posing Quality Questions

Duct Tape Marketing

He's pursued this quest as a management consultant to the world's top corporations most recently as CO CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization. My co CEO and I, Alan Samoa actually had a chance to lead together and work together in a prior organization before we founded Transcend Together.

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