Month: February 2020

Key Criteria for Choosing Corporate Gifts
Business Current Events

Key Criteria for Choosing Corporate Gifts

- by Benny McAdams

Choosing corporate gifts is not as easy as choosing the one for your close ones. Meeting and working together with your co-workers in your office does not mean they are all your friends. So, when it comes to giving gifts for your co-workers, this might be a little bit confusing. However, you can follow these tips below to choose the right and proper corporate gifts.

Do not Be Too Much

You probably purpose to impress your co-workers or boss by giving them a luxurious and expensive gift. But this can represent that you are trying to ‘buy’ loyalty or good relationship with them. Expensive gift is not a much. It will be better if you buy an affordable yet appropriate gift. Give a gift to show your gratitude and appreciation to your boss or co-workers because they have been working together with you for a long time and creating …

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Japanese Corporate Culture - Communication Etiquette
Business Information

Japanese Corporate Culture – Communication Etiquette

- by Benny McAdams

Communication Etiquette in Japanese Business Settings

At the negotiating table, Japanese corporate culture demanded a relatively specific and rigid business protocol that’s expected to be followed by both domestic business partners and foreign or expatriate partners from abroad. The communication etiquette followed the idea of tatemae, or surface communication, where the gang of businesspeople engages in pleasantries and small talk.

Another concept utilized in business meetings and at the negotiating table was those of under-communication, where the fellow Japanese business owners were generally at ease with less talk.

Tatemae also gives testimony on the aesthetic aspects of social behavior. For instance, the Japanese people often examine the external appearance and exactly how one expresses his or herself being an utmost important manifestation of that each. There can also be a ritual of exchanging pleasantries and preserving group harmony.

Remember, in Japan, there is a strong increased exposure of collectivism when …

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Is Your ISP Up to the Job?
Manufacturing

Is Your ISP Up to the Job?

- by Benny McAdams

The way we communicate with the other person has evolved dramatically in the last two decades. The postman’s bag has become lighter as the amount of handwritten letters declines in favor of e-mail. We all check our email ‘inboxes’ repeatedly each day, as well as international business, email is the correspondence of. However, is your Internet service provider supplying you with the perfect service, or is the business suffering slow connections, limited server space and vulnerability to viral attack?

Email – one’s heart of business Send a note by email and it might be conversely on the planet in seconds, instead of days in case you sent it by regular mail. Originally manufactured by Tim Berners Lee at the Cern Hadron Collider, email was created specifically to allow for scientists and business owners to approach the other instantly. That simple part of HTML programming revolutionized international communications and catapulted business …

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