After spending two days with Polish business people and politicians, one can not help but be impressed with what the Poles have achieved in the last 25 years in terms of economic growth and infrastructure development

"Men and women ARE different", Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox recently told me at an IESE event in Barcelona, (and I had to ask, "Can I quote you on this?". Her clear and direct answer was, “Please do!"). I couldn't agree more. Men and women are different. Otherwise, why would we need to have diversity in…

As I ventured into Nigeria and Kenya, the locals warned me: "don’t think all of Africa is like us." In fact,  This has important implications for companies doing business in Africa and expanding in the continent: whether traditional multinationals, emerging market multinationals (EMMs), Pan-African companies, and even African regional companies. What does country distance mean? In his CAGE…

With the US presidential campaign under way once again, we are about to hear, see, and read in our media what central figures like Hillary Clinton say to motivate and inspire the electorate to support them. Today, as in other times, there are many great speakers both inside and outside the United States, but we have…