European and US MNC's sometimes make the mistake to send younger managers to India to close a deal. This story board describes a common situation these employees may encounter.
Out of town
Dirk Jan: Good morning, my name is Dirk Jan de Groot, of KPMG. I’m from Holland. I want to let you know that I will be at your offices at 11.00 a.m. Could you please tell that to Mr. Singh? Thank you.
Secretary to Mr. Singh: Sorry, Mr. Singh is out of town.
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I'm not surprised at all that this happened. Dirk Jan is simply not senior enough to meet with this CFO. He should have taken a senior partner along. Preferably from their local Indian office. Anyway, it is too late now. I feel sorry for this guy. It is so frustrating.
We realize that some of our observations are biased due to our own cultural backgrounds. We therefore welcome your comments regarding the situations we describe on this blog.
We are part of an international team of MBA students with three different nationalities: Ukrain, French and Dutch. At the beginning of this challenging project we all had our own expectations. During the course of the project we learned to respect each others culture and learned to work in a collaborative way. The end result is this cross-cultural blog.
1 comment:
I'm not surprised at all that this happened. Dirk Jan is simply not senior enough to meet with this CFO. He should have taken a senior partner along. Preferably from their local Indian office. Anyway, it is too late now. I feel sorry for this guy. It is so frustrating.
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