I have always been interested in people and different cultures, i never forget the excitement i had in me when i started at my new first real full time job as a 18 year old porter in the lobby at the 5 Star Grand Hotel in Copenhagen, business people from everywhere coming and going every one of them with different goals and dreams.
Having been working independently now for myself for 15+ years and having traveled and lived in 7 seven different places gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of different people with different backgrounds. I asked myself what successful business people from different cultural backgrounds have in common. How are they different from other business people who fail very often or don’t succeed and give up? There are scientific studies and very interesting well written books on this subject, and I have read many of them.
One thing I learned from personal experience is how important communication is.I have been fortunate to know personally many successful business people, they are all very good communicators. Building relationships is key, for that you need to communicate , to communicate you must understand the other person you are talking with , to understand that person you need to understand where that person is coming from ,understand the culture and the land and now you have a foundation for respect. And now you have a great foundation for a long lasting business relationship. Thinking about all the difficulties there can be when doing business abroad, I began work on our services for business people and I had one thing in mind, I thought it really does not have to be that difficult.
I thought about what I would appreciate. Thinking about minimizing the risk, that’s how I think we create value for our customers.It is important to be rock solid when it comes to communication and I am pretty sure i will discover many other lessons in the future. So whoever you are, where you come from, where you want to do business i wish you good fortune and luck.
