Comments on: Guest Post: Consulting in Multi-Cultural Europe http://www.consulting-business.com/consulting-in-multi-cultural-europe.html Consulting Tips, Insider Strategies, Interviews, Jobs, Firms, and Consulting Articles on Management, Marketing, Internet, IT, Services and Much More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Michael Zipursky http://www.consulting-business.com/consulting-in-multi-cultural-europe.html/comment-page-1#comment-4421 Michael Zipursky Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:49:32 +0000 http://www.consulting-business.com/?p=2222#comment-4421 Cesareo, glad to hear you enjoyed Aarni's article. We hope to have more to come! Cesareo, glad to hear you enjoyed Aarni’s article. We hope to have more to come!

]]> By: Cesareo Goyanes http://www.consulting-business.com/consulting-in-multi-cultural-europe.html/comment-page-1#comment-4417 Cesareo Goyanes Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:46:43 +0000 http://www.consulting-business.com/?p=2222#comment-4417 Aarni was right on target! Europe is with Asia the most culturally diverse market one can find. The insight on the incompatibility of management models is very relevant to post-merger integration. That is where many a deal fail. The case of a large Spanish bank in a Latin America country comes to mind. They brought in a bunch of expatriate managers and faced enormous resistance to post-merger integration efforts. Indeed, mis-communication played a role but undoubtedly the differing management models clashed until expatriates left and a local team took over and adapted HQ procedures and systems to local realities. Congratulations to both, host and guest author for this siteª Aarni was right on target! Europe is with Asia the most culturally diverse market one can find.

The insight on the incompatibility of management models is very relevant to post-merger integration. That is where many a deal fail.

The case of a large Spanish bank in a Latin America country comes to mind. They brought in a bunch of expatriate managers and faced enormous resistance to post-merger integration efforts. Indeed, mis-communication played a role but undoubtedly the differing management models clashed until expatriates left and a local team took over and adapted HQ procedures and systems to local realities.

Congratulations to both, host and guest author for this siteª

]]>