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Negotiating: The Top Ten Ways that Culture Can Affect Your Negotiation

The great diversity of the world’s cultures makes it impossible for any negotiator, no matter how skilled and experienced, to understand fully all the cultures that may be encountered. How then should an executive prepare to cope with culture in making deals in Singapore this week and Seoul the next? In researching my book  The Global Negotiator: Making, Managing, and Mending Deals Around the World in the Twenty-First Century  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), I found that ten particular elements consistently arise to complicate intercultural negotiations. These “top ten” elements of negotiating behaviour constitute a basic framework for identifying cultural differences that may arise during the negotiation process. Applying this framework in your international business negotiations may enable you to understand your counterpart better and to anticipate possible misunderstandings. This article discusses this framework and how to apply it. 1. Negotiating goal: Contract or relationship...

WebLogic Server

What Is WebLogic Server?   The following sections provide an overview of the WebLogic Server e-commerce platform: The WebLogic Server Solution What Is WebLogic Express? WebLogic Server Application Architecture Software Component Tiers Application Logic Layers   The WebLogic Server Solution Today's business environment demands Web and e-commerce applications that accelerate your entry into new markets, help you find new ways to reach and retain customers, and allow you to introduce new products and services quickly. To build and deploy these new solutions, you need a proven, reliable e-commerce platform that can connect and empower all types of users while integrating your corporate data, mainframe applications, and other enterprise applications in a powerful, flexible, end-to-end e-commerce solution. Your solution must provide the performance, scalability, and high availability needed to handle your most critical enterprise-scale computing. As th...