Dean Foster, author of five books on world cultures, travel and work, is also host of the podcast, “Oops! Your Culture’s Showing!” and the CNN “Doing Business in…” series. He is on faculty at the Intercultural Management Institute, American University, Washington, DC. His work has taken him to over 100 countries and he still loves getting on the plane.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Dean’s dad
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We were doing something that had simply never been done before, that means that we spent 90% of our energy in education mode, we would go to prospective clients and say you’re working internationally what we can do is provide the cultural information and support that you need in order to do what you do more successfully. We were greeted like deer’s in headlights” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Darwin BooksFavourite Quote:
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research – an interdisciplinary network for trainers and researchers in the area of intercultural and cross-cultural communication.
- Worldwide Employee Relocation Council – is the mobility industry s premier trade organization, connecting and empowering talent management and workforce relocation professionals across the globe Look to us as a source of unbiased information for today, and solutions and insight for the future, in this ever changing field
- Search ‘entrepreneurial support and consulting services’
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Never stop. Just when you think it might not happen, just when you think you’ve been barking up the wrong tree, just when you think that all the belief you’ve put into all you’ve been doing has been for nought, that’s when you have to keep going, because it will come around, if you believe it, it will be so simply don’t stop”…[Listen for More]
More About Dean Foster:
World-Ready Enterprises LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it’s not the end goal. It’s a mechanism.” Conrad Wolfram
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dean Foster:
“You’ve got to do it from your heart, don’t do it unless you know that it’s something that you simply can’t not do, that’s going to give you the energy and the drive that you will need and you will definitely need the energy and the drive because you will need to work 48 hours a day, that’s what you need to do to build a business, you can’t do that unless you love it”
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