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Americans tend to speak quickly, especially when discussing technical issues. They easily forget that their German colleagues are not native speakers. Germans consider it impolite to interrupt. If you speak quickly they will try to keep pace with you. Make it easy for your colleagues by simply speaking slowly. Take the time during a conversation to ask them if they are still with you.
The Battle of Germantown
Philadelphia. Early October. Indian Summer. The days are still long and warm. The foliage green and heavy. It will be a few more weeks before the landscape turns radiant yellow, orange, red, soft light brown. The transition of the seasons has me thinking of the past. It‘s Saturday and I leaf through the Philadelphia Inquirer [...]
Americanize.
Soon my base of operations will be Bonn and Philadelphia. Spending large blocks of time in the latter will allow me to be closer to my US-based clients. And I intend to broaden my offering beyond the German-American space. Input, ideas, suggestions are coming in from my network of contacts in the U.S.
A common [...]