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Expert tips for productive confinement
Creative confinement: staying alive, sane, healthy, fit, productive and constructive while locked up for any reason.

Gabor Holch
Apr 11, 20225 min read


How cultural differences make online negotiations fail
Three common online negotiation situations where you are likely to fail for intercultural reasons.

Gabor Holch
Mar 2, 20224 min read


Five culture scams to avoid in 2022
For an intercultural consultant, these two years have been like a goldmine full of carelessly placed dynamite.

Gabor Holch
Dec 31, 20215 min read


Who’s next—The culture of leader succession in uncertain times
Why are people afraid of replacing their leaders in uncertain time, why are leaders afraid to let go, and why they really should?

Gabor Holch
Oct 5, 20215 min read


Five essential qualities for China CEOs (video)
What are the essential qualities for China CEOs according to author Dr Laurie Underwood, and why they will not be found in one person.

Gabor Holch
Aug 9, 20212 min read


China+1: Where do multinationals go from China? (full webinar video)
Intercultural consultants Gabor Holch & Jurriaan Meyer discuss ‘China+1’, the concept of balancing the increasing geopolitical and human res

Gabor Holch
Jun 2, 20211 min read


Mapping intercultural strengths makes management teams better
Respecting diverse opinions, temperaments and work styles is every professional team’s philosophy—until the first crisis comes along.

Gabor Holch
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Three culture hacks to improve wasteful online meetings
Anyone with a broadband access is a global problem-solver now. People support remote work, but connected meetings have built-in flaws.

Gabor Holch
Feb 23, 20215 min read


Leaders in 2021 must be daring agents between safe havens
For leaders in business, healthcare, government, education and more, 2020 was both a dream and a nightmare. How can they do better in 2021?

Gabor Holch
Jan 23, 20216 min read


How culture makes or breaks business plans
There is no safe place to hide from culture, whatever the industry. Chinese investors approach financial risk differently from Swiss ones.

Gabor Holch
Sep 16, 20205 min read


The 2020 guide to intercultural leadership
Global people skills aren’t optional any more—2019 made this message clear. Global business reached managers of tiny startups in Mumbai or m
Gabor Holch
Jan 7, 20205 min read


Leading millennials: A million-year dilemma returns
Research on millennials makes fascinating reading. Never before have we dedicated so much time and effort to understanding the talents, need
Gabor Holch
Aug 23, 20194 min read


Expats behind China’s triple great wall
Foreign experts and businesses in China are a discriminated minority and a privileged elite at the same time. Foreign-Invested enterprises a
Gabor Holch
Jul 3, 20195 min read


Global people skills aren’t optional any more
Globalisation in business, management and leadership often disorient the very people who are supposed to provide orientation to others. Take
Gabor Holch
May 22, 20195 min read


Future-proofing your China expat management
In recent months, multinational offices in China’s first-tier cities have been beehives of activity. Minutes before our scheduled coaching s
Gabor Holch
Apr 14, 20195 min read


Expat leaders lost (and found) in cultural mazes
Most multinational executives I coach or train into newly assumed expat jobs nurture two different but related ambitions. First, they want t
Gabor Holch
Feb 26, 20195 min read


Demystifying China's leadership culture
By the time Dave took up his post as the Shanghai branch’s General Manager, he had done his homework on Confucian leadership. Nurturing ambi
Gabor Holch
Feb 5, 20196 min read


How 2019 will sharpen your leadership values
This year more than last, a global marketplace of goods, services and ideas will give you a tough part in a drama taking place on a divided
Gabor Holch
Jan 16, 20196 min read


The real DNA of great intercultural teams
“They are quite polite and indirect,” the new project manager describes her local colleagues. “When they communicate problems, you have to g
Gabor Holch
Dec 5, 20185 min read


Three expert tips for successful networking in China
The non-extroverted majority of ambitious business leaders consider networking, similarly to public speaking, a dreadful and inevitable pros
Gabor Holch
Nov 7, 20184 min read
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