by Anna Ridgway | Feb 10, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, export, international business, Managing across cultures
Australia’s now-sliding reputation for clean business has rested on laurels achieved in a less globally connected past. Its four-year slippage down the international corruption perception rankings has earned a reprieve, thanks in part to recent false accounting...
by Anna Ridgway | Jan 1, 2017 | Adapting to change, blog, Global dexterity, globalisation, international business
Despite a ‘perfect storm’ of economic, social and geopolitical challenges in a changing world order, Japan is capable of finding solutions by being culturally authentic to itself. When considering Japan’s economic, social an geopolitical challenges, two...
by Anna Ridgway | Apr 11, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Communicating across cultures, Global dexterity, Global teams, international business, Managing across cultures
After reading Lakoff and Johnson’s classic Metaphors We Live By, which describes how we use metaphors from our everyday experience to understand existing and new ideas and help flex and shape our thinking, I’ve been thinking of metaphors to describe...
by Anna Ridgway | Apr 7, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Developing trust, Global dexterity, Global teams, international business, Managing across cultures
Owww-w-w I’m so sore. Last night I had my first swim stroke correction classes and today I’m creaking around like a rusted-up sofa bed on legs. But only four more weeks of this mild torment and I’ll be over the magic divide. I’ll be one of...
by Anna Ridgway | Jan 8, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Coaching Case Studies, Communicating across cultures, international business
This is the story of a professional dream gone bad overseas in a country with a known yet poorly understood cultural environment. It has parallels with the stories of countless professionals gifted with expertise, experience and cultural knowledge but lack of cultural...
by Anna Ridgway | Jan 22, 2015 | Adapting to change, blog, Business goals, Developing trust, international business
I was sitting down for lunch at a new Melbourne café with Samuel*, a CFO acquaintance, and we were considering our menu options. Samuel was hemming and hawing while the waitress hovered. ‘Well, anything – so long as it’s not Asian,’ he finally said. After helping him...
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