Daily bread 10/07/2015

• Into the 'País de Niebla"

• Managing across cultures | The Economist

  • corporate culture is the key to success in the next wave of global mergers and acquisitions
  • president and CEO of Nissan and Renault
  • Nov 18th 2005
    • An Oldie, but a goodie. Still applies today...perhaps, more than ever.
  • acquire and absorb
  • courtship
  • synergies
  • the motivation of individual employees and their ability to collaborate in teams
  • cordial
  • The news
  • met with scepticism
  • latent
  • corporate culture is the key driver
  • motivated employees
  • maintain the best features of existing cultures while promoting necessary evolution
  • a new global imperative: diversity
  • we have embraced English as a language that allows us to communicate effectively with each other and with customers
  • Gender
  • We must make space for women
  • Generational transition
  • promotion and compensation based on merit not seniority

• Teaching expats new tricks – The Bogota Post

  • Pursuing a career
  • Teaching expats new tricks
  • Pursuing a career
    • note the typical collocation
  • a whole host of
  • hurdles
  • sorting out
  • persevere
  • held three jobs
  • know a lot of Spanish
  • enough Spanish to get by,
  • the exception not the rule
  • on the fly.
  • listened to Spanish constantly
  • lend itself to
  • immersing yourself in the language
  • contacts
  • build a network
  • expats
  • lookout for free language learning opportunities
  • www.elempleo.com
  • research the major companies
  • Face to face contact
  • studying at one of the universities

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.