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Part 2: Differences in the Asian and American business culture

03 June 2020

Written by Peter-Jan van Doorn

This is the second part of Peter-Jan van Doorn‘s blog about the cultural differences in business culture. In the first part, he wrote about Europe. In this second part, Peter-Jan writes about the cultural differences between Asia and USA.

Brain-scan: research teams reach different results

02 June 2020

When 70 independent teams were tasked with analyzing identical brain images, no two teams chose the same approach and their conclusions were highly variable.

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