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Next Time Your Doing Business in Mother Russia
| quote: | Doing Business in Russia?
Don't unless you can answer the following:
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You arrive for the first meeting with your Russian colleagues, and immediately present them with your business card. They eagerly accept it, but fail to return one to you. You are perplexed...does this mean they do not look forward to being able to contact you?
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You ask your Russian colleagues for a decision on the issue you have been negotiating for quite some time, and, once again, they stall and evade making a decision. In addition, they clearly remind you of their displeasure with your behavior and the pressure you are exerting. What to do?
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You meet your Russian colleague for the third time, and he rushes up to you, gives you a big bear hug in front of your entire team, and plants a kiss on your cheek. You are startled, and not a little embarrassed. How to respond?
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Your Russian colleague makes a toast in your honor, and you raise the glass of vodka to your lips. You glance down into the shot glass, and quickly gulp the fiery liquid down. You look up only to find your Russian hosts looking disapprovingly back at you. What did you do wrong?
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Q Your Russian hosts invite you to a dinner at their small apartment in Moscow. You realize this is quite an honor, and perhaps a great inconvenience for your Russian hosts, so you arrive loaded down with many delicacies, and immediately enter the apartment when they open the door. Although your hosts are obviously pleased with your kind gesture, they also seem a bit put-off by your generosity. You wonder what you might have done wrong.
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