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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.
Philip Foster to instruct course in Bogota Columbia
Philip Foster, Regent University GLE doctoral student, will be teaching in Bogota, Colombia on May 17-20. He will instruct a module on...
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Apr 19, 20121 min read
Connecting with Culture | What leaders need to know.
As cross-cultural matters become calibrated to a deeper understanding of how important communication and conflict resolution are to a...
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Apr 9, 20122 min read
PRESS RELEASE: Maximum Change TV Network Announced
Press Release Maximum Change TV Network Announced Maximum Change, Inc., a leadership coaching and consulting firm announces development...
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Apr 9, 20122 min read
Developing a Cultural Hermeneutic to Conflict Resolution
In dealing with conflict, leaders should develop a cultural hermeneutics that assist the leader and organization to function successfully...
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Mar 29, 20122 min read
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
Developing the Key Attributes of Global Leadership: An Ideological Texture Analysis of the Book of T
By Philip A Foster, MA Global Leadership Understanding and developing attributes of global leadership are likely one of the clearest...
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Mar 7, 20127 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
January 1, 2012 – HAPPY NEW YEAR | Maximum Change to succeed in 2012
For whatever reason, many believe they can go it alone. You might believe that you can read enough books, go to more seminars, and get...
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Jan 1, 20122 min read
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