The Europe of past centuries knew all about cementing alliances. Royalty and nobility married their children into one another’s families. Love had little to do with it compared to the political challenges and the future of peoples who were all too often at war. The goal was peace: durable, fruitful peace between heretofore enemies. Sometimes […]

Is there a limit to metaphors? Why is it that suddenly, big corporations are sequencing their “company genome” and are looking at their “Corporate DNA”, as if their culture had anything to do with genetics? Well, let’s try and answer this, and start with the beginning, the fundamentals: who’s Dad? Who’s Mom? How did it […]

Like mergers, acquisitions and other forms of strategic alliances, international joint ventures (IJV’s) are growing fast. Like these other alliances, failure rates are high. And like in these other forms of market entry or growth, while the business must become global, management and people remain culture-bound, if not local. It’s a new corporate culture In […]