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This is the title of my article in the current issue of Mondial, a specialist magazine focussing on intercultural issues and combining personal experiences, academic articles and discussions on controversial intercultural topics.

My topic? The challenges of international management demand not only strategic and analytical thinking, but above all…

How about this: In today's advanced digital world, data is not only collected and analysed. It plays a crucial role in international projects that require cross-border collaboration.

In order to increase the efficiency of government work, Japan recently conducted a trial run in which generative AI systems, such as ChatGPT, were used to create draft laws and summarise the content of meetings.

Have you had a trusted contact in China for many years who has helped you locally, opened many doors and always given you good advice? If he or she retires, this can have a direct impact on previous business relationships and therefore on your business - depending on how well prepared a successor is. In other words, if you already have a successor…

Have you ever come across the term guanxi (Chinese 關係 / 关系, pinyin: guānxi)? In short, the word stands for the network of very personal relationships from which you can benefit.

Individual responsibility or better control? If you are sent to China by your company, it is quite normal that someone with responsibility is immediately assigned to you on site, who will travel with you for the first few days - sometimes even longer - i.e. accompany you. If you are now thinking: "Very nice of my Chinese boss to be with me…

The linguist Guy Deutscher (in his book ‚Through the Language Glass‘) claims that our mother tongue serves as an expression of our perception and deeper sense, as exemplified in Mascha Kaléko’s poem, in which the vocabulary used, despite being seemingly precise translations, takes on a different meaning.