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WTCGP Seminar "A Passport to the World's Business Culture"

Gain valuable business culture knowledge from the experts

Event type: WTCGP Breakfast Around the Region

Date & Time
Start Date: 1/19/2006 8:30 a.m.
End Date: 1/19/2006 10:30 a.m.

Fee
Non-Member Fee: $35

Location
One Port Center, 2 Riverside Drive
(across from the NJ Aquarium)
11th floor, Board Room
Camden, NJ 08103

Directions
Directions are available online at: http://www.wtcphila.org/contact_us.asp.

Parking for this event will be free in the open lot on Federal Street across the street from the L3 Lot. (Gates will be up.)

Coordinator
Victoria Delvizis
vdelvizis@wtcphila.org
856-969-7826

Hosts
Delaware River Port Authority

Sponsors
Sovereign Bank

Co-sponsors
U.S. Department of Commerce (Newark and Trenton Offices)

Description
We know that international business success requires more business acumen than managing a domestic enterprise. When venturing across borders, you not only have to deal with traditional business functions and values, but you must also abide by certain intangible and obscure "rules of engagement."

Join the WTCGP at our next Breakfast Around the Region "A Passport to the World's Business Culture." You will learn how sensitivity to cultural and social issues (or lack thereof) can impact your succes rate in foreign markets.

- Terri Morrison, author of "Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in 60 Countries";

- Joanna Savvides, WTCGP President.

will address such issues as: national stereotypes and ways to overcome them; relationship building in a new global market; short-term vs. long-term vision; the concept of time in various cultures; and other social and cultural formalities. No matter how "obvious" these concepts might seem, they are often overlooked by American companies and their international partners.

In addition, a panel of experts will share anecdotes and their real life experiences.

Panel of Experts:

- F. William Bogle, Chief Operating Officer, Genesis Machinery Products;
- Dino Ramos, International Trade Specialist, WTCGP;
- Nick Banis, Director of Global Quality Assurance, Cookson Electronics.

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