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Do not allow yourself to doubt for a long time, but do not start a business with "rhyme or reason". Everything must be balanced and thorough analysis, and self-confidence. Listen to the market, study it, and learn your consumer services. Listen to the advice of experienced entrepreneurs, especially those who work at the market where you want to start. Find answers to your questions from people who understand, and not those who simply knows. She rented the place for the spa salon…

Quality is the customer’s understanding of how goods and services fit for their reason and how it fulfills stated and unexpressed description. Excellence is a talent or skill that surpasses ordinary standards. Quality and excellence goes hand in hand, as one cannot function without the other. Quality and excellence are defined as delivering a high standard of care to patients, providing for their needs using a clinical approach, which abides by safety standards and is supported by scientific…

Cross border Acquisitions and Mergers The main motives for cross-border acquisitions and mergers are efficiency gains and strategic motive. Efficiency gains due to synergy between the firms leading to economies of scale or scope. Strategic motive is if there is a change in market structure resulting in the change of the firm’s competitive position and profits because of the access to different product types, workforces, suppliers and capital markets. Also the cross border acquisitions and…

The film Osama directed by Siddiq Barmak delivers insider perspective of the challenges a woman living in Afghanistan experiences on a daily basis. Osama was entirely filmed in Afghanistan during the strict rule of the Taliban, where women are not allowed to work or be in public without a male escort. Many families are left without men to provide for the women because many of them died during the Afghan Wars, thus leaving families with only women to starve. Osama exposes an extremist culture…

There is a debate on culture uniformity, on one side, theory of convergence support uniformity by providing argument that because of the business around the world is relying more on the technology as it moves to industrialized era, culture would become more similar (Sparrow, Schuler, & Jackson, 1994). On the other side, there is a view about culture divergence means that uniformity is unlikely to take place as the characteristic of culture is unique and dynamic (Kelley & Reeser, 1973; Lincoln,…

This perspective is one I wholeheartedly agree with. Having been in a hiring position previously, I can relate to wanting to hire an individual with the right mindset over someone with the right skill set. While the right skill set is important, skills are easier to teach. A person 's mindset is not fixed but it is much harder to change. The education system is largely designed around teaching skills. The soft skills, i.e. mindset, is something that is developed along the way. I personally would…

n the article “Exploring the exchange student’s global minds in a study abroad project” by John et al(2015), the authors present a research which aims to determine how the students improve themselves in the foreign environment and how they construct their global minds. Meanwhile in the article “Intercultural Communication as Revealed in Language Learning Histories” by Doman(2014), the author reveals the important factors which either hinder or enhance students’ English learning abilities.…

3.4 Power distance A large distance between power of society is similar to collective society which emphasis on social class and level (Hofstede, 1994). Everyone wants power and desires gap between people(Hofstede, 1994). In this society, people who has low power also want to make friend with high power people that hope to increase their power. There is common phenomenon between different people which was recognized by people who is in large power distance society(Hofstede, 1994). In this…

What is your opinion of the manner in which Anna Håkansson prepared for her business trip? Could she have done a better job here? If so, how? In my opinion, Anna’s preparation was a good jumping off point but was inadequate. While her comparison of Bahrain and Sweden using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (Steers, 2013) and her study of the structure of Arab extended families and the role this family structure plays in the decision-making process was a good start, she failed to study up on the…

Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI prior to departure and four weeks after students’ return to determine the degree to which cross-cultural sensitivity was developed. The authors found, using the IDI, that participants’ intercultural sensitivity increased after a four-week program in England and Ireland. They suggest that students with higher levels of cross-cultural sensitivity will be able to apply these skills in all diverse environments, including back on campus and future…