轉錄一篇有趣的文章，我想大家應該都會非常欣賞這篇文章的標題
而且，心有戚戚，對吧？！ :p
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"Success Starts with Karaoke"
Business school did not teach Chris Engholm how to sing karaoke. But there he
was, on stage in a posh Hong Kong nightclub, his new Chinese associates
intently awaiting his performance. He knew his inability to mumble a few bars
of “Freebird” could be embarrassing to his hosts and devastating to his new
business relationships. Still,
he froze. “It was a serious thing,” Engholm says.
In many Pacific Rim countries, culture and business are deeply intertwined,
creating all sorts of minefields for the unprepared executive. Anything from
refusing an invitation to sing to leaving your chopsticks stuck upright in a
bowl of rice—an ominous symbol—could be taken as an insult. In business
centers like Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taiwan and Manila, a deal might depend on your
ability to make it through dinner while minding your manners.
“Business always gets social” in the Pacific Rim, says Engholm, an
entrepreneur from Temecula, Calif., who has written several books on doing
business in the region. His unnerving karaoke experience led him to develop
this rule: “If you can’t sing, have a song that you know or demand someone
sing with you.”
Experts say: know the basic rules of etiquette. Some fall into the category of
things your mother told you. Don’t slouch. Get your hands out of your pockets.
Be polite. Others are the result of centuries of traditions far removed from
the typical Westerner’s experience—for example, even in modern-day Hong Kong,
it’s best to avoid using any form of the number four, which is associated with
death. For women, the Pacific Rim presents an entirely different quagmire of
social and cultural mores.
Not only do they have to wrestle with proper bowing techniques, they face, in
many cases, generations of engrained and complex ideas of societal rankings.
On the plus side: Expectations are often low. “If you display openness and a
willingness to learn and respect for the culture, they will forgive you for
almost anything,” says Stephen Chipman of Dallas, Tex., an international
partner in Grant Thornton LLP, an accounting firm based in Chicago.
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