Understanding Business
Understanding Business
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ISBN: 9781259929434
Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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I need a different explanation that the ones given online (Coursehero, Chegg, Barleby) I want to expand my thinking.

You're the CEO of a small company traveling to another country (assume a country of your choice) to complete a business deal with a foreign company.  Your plane landed there on time, you're feeling fine, and everything seems to be going well.  The cab driver, who doesn't speak much English, understood where you needed to go and started driving.  He starts to listen to a Justin Bieber song and asks you in broken English what type of music you like.  As your cab enters the hotel, you notice a McDonald's restaurant across the street with familiar golden arches.  You check-in with your credit card, call your spouse from your iPhone and exchange some dollars at the money exchange place at the lobby of the hotel.  You then get some take-out food from the McDonald's since you'll get plenty of opportunities to dine in local restaurants later on.

When returning to your hotel room, you wonder why the instructor at the culture training class asked you to be careful about cultural differences when doing business overseas.  It now seems like a waste of money for a class like that because you don't even feel like you're in a foreign country.  You begin to feel confident that everything will be just fine.

Is this a good assessment of the situation or you think you might be in for a big surprise later on?  Please explain and discuss it in detail. In your discussion, try to be as substantive as possible using concepts from your text or other sources.  

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