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Chicago Boss Learns OWN Seoul Account From Notes

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Patricia R. Francis, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, at the 2006 Horasis Global China Business Meeting - Flickr - Horasis | picked for: scene: international business meeting

Mock news bulletin: a sales director in Chicago has a major account in Seoul, and BNO News reports she runs the whole thing through a game of telephone. A Korean-speaking manager on her team relays her questions during the meetings, then writes up what the client meant afterward. So she learns about her own account from somebody else's book report.

Back home, that's like hiring a ranch hand to chew your steak and tell you how it tasted. BNO says global teams are now moving past this multilingual-middle-manager setup, though the full argument isn't clear from what I've seen. Lord, give me patience, and if you can't, give me a louder microphone.

I pointed at the smoke. The whole fire is over here:

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