Wednesday, October 26, 2022: How to manage in a way that reflects the perspective of others in a cross-cultural context

We learned from a report by Hiroshi Shirai, CEO of Ryochi Communication Partners, who runs the popular Vietnamese restaurant "Huong Lai" in Ho Chi Minh City, which employs orphans and street children in Vietnam and trains them to become socially useful members of the workforce.
Getting the Vietnamese children, whose ways of thinking and behavior are completely different, to all work together on the same vector was a constant struggle. He realized that rather than trying to change the other person into his ideal version of himself, he needed to change himself to match their perspective, and gradually they would begin to connect with each other.