Thoughts on Korean Business by Don Southerton

  When quizzed on our consulting services, here is the Q&A. Q. Why do we need coaching and consulting? A. This may be the first time working with a Korean or Western team, or you are seasoned. Still, there is a need to better understand the partner's culture, workplace norms, and expectations. In most cases, Western teams will interact with the Korean HQ and expatriate teams. Some of the teams will hold a line managerial position with day-to-day responsibilities alongside Western managers, while others will hold key management C-level positions, such as CFO or CEO. In many, if not most, cases, these teams may operate as a " shadow management " with considerable oversight and operational control over local operations. With the best of intentions, the Korean teams will look to build strong collaboration and teamwork and try to avoid a sense of them and us. However, they do bring Korean work norms that can conflict with Western norms and working methods. More so, Korea...

    https://www.prlog.org/13173221-don-southerton-announces-connected.html   New book shows how Korea's industrial groups and technology companies build, govern and secure connected systems across ten sectors GOLDEN, CO. Bridging Culture Worldwide founder Don Southerton has announced Connected: How Cars, Factories, Chips, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing, Ships, AI, and Biopharma Run on the Same Architecture , is to be released October 15, 2026. The Kindle edition is available for pre-order now on Amazon, with the paperback following on release day. Connected cars , smart factories , semiconductor fabs , robots, digital twins , battery plants, shipyards, AI , smart cities and biopharma clusters look like different industries. Southerton shows that underneath, they run on the same architecture: sensors, controllers, a network, a gateway to the cloud, and software that updates. Drawing on more than 30 years of work with Korea's leading industrial groups and firsthand visits...