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The Founders Blog
Welcome to The Founders Blog by Dr. Phil Foster. This blog is your go-to resource for insights into building a thriving online membership business, drawing from my extensive journey in launching and mentoring successful ventures. Each post is crafted to inspire, guide, and empower you, whether you're just starting out or scaling up. Your future as a successful online membership business owner begins here.
Cross-Cultural Conflict Avoidance
While avoiding allows conflict to go unresolved or projects responsibility on to others for solving the problem (Fletcher, 2012), it does...
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Mar 29, 20122 min read
Leading Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution
Interpretive misunderstanding is central to cross-cultural conflict resolution. When dealing with Asian culture, for example, Westerners...
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Mar 29, 20122 min read
Sell with your story!
I have come to the conclusion that the best marketing tool a small business can use is their story. I’m not necessarily speaking of your...
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Mar 21, 20123 min read
Interpreting culture and its impact on conflict resolution
To interpret the culture and its impact on conflict we must begin to understand inquisitiveness is at the core of effective global...
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Mar 21, 20122 min read
Considering high-context vs. low-context cultures and its impact on cross-cultural leadership commun
The Global Communicator Communicating in your own native language is difficult enough. Add to this the nuances of differing cultures and...
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Mar 16, 20125 min read
Managing Cross-Cultural Conflicts – Expressive or Instrumental
Understanding the nature of conflict is important to its management. Gudykunst and Kim (2003) argue conflicts are inevitable and...
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Mar 14, 20122 min read
Shame Leadership – Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries
Understanding culture and its values aids the communicator in dealing with conflict resolution. Elmer (1993) posits there are ways we can...
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Mar 14, 20122 min read
Lost in Translations
According to Oster (2012), cross-cultural communication is challenge enough. Add to this challenge effective translation of material into...
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Mar 6, 20122 min read
Cross-Cultural Communication and Change.
Hackman and Johnson (2000) state that cultures change over time and older groupings within a given culture may not be the same as newer...
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Mar 6, 20122 min read
High- and Low-Context Cultures and Power Distances
Literature provides argument that cross-cultural communication is a complex matter. Edward Hall argued much of the human communication is...
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Feb 25, 20122 min read
Relationships are the new wealth of the global economy.
Literature reveals certain barriers to consider in cross-cultural communication. Zweifel (2003) reminds us a global leader already...
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Feb 21, 20122 min read
Developing the Global Leader – Transitioning Leaders and Their Organizations to a Global Environment
Entering the 21st century we find a time of unprecedented globalization of business and economies. The advent of the Internet and other...
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Jan 29, 20124 min read
Growing as a Global Leader
Curiosity and the insatiable desire to learn will lead a global leader to not only embrace their experiences, but also make sense of them...
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Jan 21, 20122 min read
I am a Global Leader…Mi fiel amigo y socio en los negocios [My loyal friend and business assoc
Geography, language, customs, values, traditions, laws, ethics, and national psychology are all considerations to whether someone is a...
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Jan 12, 20122 min read
Focusing on The Unemployment Numbers is Wrong
Before you read on I will admit that I am NOT an economist and this is NOT a political posting. I am not trying to be negative – I am a...
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Dec 13, 20113 min read
Doing Customer Service Right!
I am more of the opinion that the way to keep customer and grow your market share will revolve on how you treat both current and...
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Dec 12, 20112 min read
Creating an Unhappy Customer
It is not very often that I get on a rant about something. The issue has to be extremely serious for me to even get the slightest...
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Dec 10, 20113 min read
Fractional Leadership – Strategy for leading the 21st century organization
As the world begins to climb out of what some are now calling the Great Recession, organizations are beginning to learn how to deal with...
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Nov 27, 20113 min read
Doing the Right Thing – Better Customer Service for Raving Fans
It’s happened to you I know! Like many people you have experienced horrible customer service. It appears that long gone are the days of...
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Nov 22, 20114 min read
Is Business for People or for Profit?
The only way I know how to begin answer the question is business for people or profit is through an analogy. The human body is the...
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Nov 19, 20112 min read
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