How The Multicultural Entrepreneur Takes Over The Business World tvdmexonline.com /multicultural-entrepreneur/ TVD
From being a rarity the multicultural entrepreneur will soon be a must in all business environments. Without even being aware of it, my entire career did cultivate my personality as a multicultural entrepreneur. As a young businessman from Scandinavia, married to a lovely Mexican woman, the long and fascinating journey of the career has gone through 6 different nations of living and doing business in more than 50 different countries. It’s true that business trips are entirely different from leisure journeys. Often the short visits count in hotels, offices, restaurant and airports as the main places to visit. But even with such traveling pattern force you to dive into each country’s unique culture and habits. Learning how to get a hotel room even if no rooms available means that you know how to approach the problem with the particular culture of the country. To get a product custom cleared with a missing import document is proof that you are aware of how to get around the problem in that particular culture. But also you get to know how to negotiate with different people. You will learn how much time to spend on the social part and how many hours on the real business. And it can vary dramatically from country to country. Linda Brimm’s article “Who are Today’s Citizens of the World?” confirms that multicultural entrepreneurs are more creative. They are also more accustomed to changes and can easily learn and use new ways of thinking. You can be a sharp business person, but without being a multicultural entrepreneur, you will easily get lost. You’ll get lost in the jungle of different cultures.
How The Multicultural Entrepreneur Has An Advantage In Today’s Business Environment From being the world with clear borders between countries, cultures, political systems and international trade, today’s environment is more borderless. Another word for the same is globalization. The dominating trend around the world, in spite of some isolated exceptions, is free trade in all aspects. It’s not a trend somebody creates, but a natural movement based on radically improved communication. The communication is faster, and the most important the communication of today is different. Social media and all other Internet-based connections are the new pieces added to the old traditional world. It’s a much faster world. The world becomes much more connected. And the most important, the frontiers between cultures, languages, and habits start to be more diffuse. It’s true that China and India are the biggest in the world. However, the English-speaking regions are so far the most potential in the area of Internet businesses. Therefore, it’s natural that English is the dominating online business language.
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