The World At Work

Success in business comes from understanding the etiquette, the thinking, the business practices of those with cultures other than your own.

Understanding how different peoples across the world go about their day-to-day business, how they conduct meetings, undertake negotiations, make a sales pitch – and even how they regard their boss – will help us all develop Cultural Intelligence and appreciate the value of cultural diversity.

This site aims to help you gain an insight into the way people in another country think and work. It may even be the chance to get past the usual obstacles to doing business in another country. It is certainly the chance to tell them about your own business. Ultimately, It will make you more successful in your professional life, whether you deal with foreign colleagues at home or abroad.

We welcome your contributions - post them here today! All you have to do is send an email to post@theworldatwork.posterous.com .

(The subject of your email becomes the title of your post, and the body and attachments of the email become the content of your post. You can add photos, video clips, podcast, audio clips, documents etc – that’s all the techie side taken care of!)