Personal reflections on overseas travel, international business, friendship, relationships and the realities of a working life spent across many countries and cultures.
Categories Theme: How international business travel used to work. International business travel before email required careful preparation, personal judgement and the ability to work independently for weeks at a time. For most of my working life, international business was conducted face to face. A typical trip might last a month and cover several countries. Flights … Read more
International trade before digital communication depended on telegrams, telex messages, concise reports and decisions made far from the office. Having spent the last sixty years in global sales and marketing, I became accustomed to communicating with people at every level — from the shoe-shine boy outside a hotel to government ministers. My work took me … Read more