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Living in Russia – an overview
Famous fountain of friendship of the nations, Moscow
Russia in Perspective: get your Passport
to Crossing the Cultural Borders
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
I decided to touch upon one of the factors
that, according to international surveys and
pools* has a direct impact on the successful
completion of any expatriate mission, be it in
Russia or elsewhere in the world.
Unfortunately, so far, in Russia, this aspect
has not being paid due attention and respect.
This is probably why, quite regularly, we hear
Get your expatriates operational immediately
in business environment in Russia and all over
the world reports on costly failures due to cultural
misunderstandings between expatriates
and teams of different nations.
I shall try to explain my point by letting
the figures speak for themselves. The scheme
hereunder depicts a standard adaptation curve
that every expatriate goes through, when in
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