by Chris Smit | Feb 27, 2014 | General
What is International Management? Checking the online encyclopedia Wikipedia does not give an answer (the page does not exist!). Still, in Cultural Awareness Training, it is a real important issue. How do you manage internationally and/or how do you manage the...
by Richard Hill | Dec 5, 2013 | General
Saint Nicholas of Myra has a lot to answer for. For a start he was responsible for a Nordic Council meeting that was devoted to a bitter dispute over claims to his namesake, Santa Claus. The Norwegians presented a carefully argued but sentimental case for ownership,...
by Richard Hill | Aug 20, 2013 | General
Traveling From Belgium to France Travel southeast down the valley of the Viroin and, just beyond the border, you find yourself traversing a wasteland of scrubby hedgerows and bits of abandoned corrugated iron that shrieks “France”. You are witnessing the...
by Richard Hill | May 30, 2013 | General
Trend Spotting in Europe Media commentators are talking about the long-term risk that the European institutions will “disintegrate”. But the foundations on which these institutions are based – the subsoil of the European Union – are also shaky. There are a number of...
by Richard Hill | Apr 9, 2013 | General
We are always told to keep out of other people’s politics but, as an admirer and a long-standing resident of this country, I feel as concerned as a lot of Belgians do about all the talk of breaking the country up. Not that we did a very admirable job in putting it...
by Chris Smit | Feb 18, 2013 | General
This is a personal story and experience when it comes to Uncertainty Avoidance in the Netherlands and Belgium. In earlier posts on this topic, I have tried to describe what Uncertainty Avoidance is. Only last week I was confronted with the very practical experience...
