Cultural differences: how do the Dutch, Americans and Ukrainians treat their clients?

I believe in the statement in Covey’s book of 7 habits: “Treat your people like you want them to treat your best clients”. This way you can get any person of any culture to understand how you want them to treat your clients. This blog tells how I see the Dutch, American and Ukrainian culture make their people treat their clients in a certain way.

I hope the blog will help managers to deal better with issues related to offshoring units in the Ukraine. At the same time I hope that Dutch politicians will see my worries for the Dutch society. Btw, the blog is long, sorry for that.

How to make Enterprise 2.0 concrete and to define result expectations, to justify the necessary investments?

Enterprise 2.0 needs to become more concrete, expectations, results. This article tells about how Enterprsie 2.0 ideas really can work when international collaboration becomes a vision and even a necessity.

To add life to days, where no more days can be added to life

Componence sponsors Team Overstag in the Roparun, an organization committed to give more life to people who have the big ‘C’.

Attacks on Jaipur - a shamefull waste of human capacities

To show another voice, another way, we at Componence are committed to work together with you, the people of Jaipur! We will show all those narrow minded people that through international collaboration good things can be better achieved, rather than to destroy precious human lives and cultures. Together will will contribute in anyway we can to bring more prosperity to the future for the people in Jaipur.

Enterprise 2.0 - Enterprise needs pioneers who get it!

What can Enterprises do to change society if they would use the same Web 2.0 tools to make their professionals really work together achieve longterm, enduring and big successes.

Laptops stolen - no worries; Wiki, Gmail and external drives save the day

Loss of laptops can lead to less damage when Web 2.0 tools are used to store most of your critical data.