There are 'cultural" difference in the way of doing business that I think are worthy of comment.
For the past years the central theme in the USA and Europe have been: "focus", "core competencies", sell non core business units, be the strongest, biggest, bestest in your best thing etc.
In many countries, situations are different. Probably in Taiwan it is better to have small pieces of various industries than to have a big chunk of one alone, and this is what smart people do over there.
McKinsey, the consulting firm, has been selling the "american line" world wide. We have witnessed, in my country, how the expensive McKinsey advice (15 MM U$S) managed to vaporize one of our major economic groups.
So, if McKinsey is sometimes unable to "decode" cultural differences, our playground stalker will definitely be unable too comprehend "a different reality". He can visit as many "foreign countries" as he wants, he won't get it.
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