See dear dash dash, I am a practising manager and also a researching manager and I love scanning the uncontrollable environment from culture, politics, law, infrastructures, finance, technology, environment, socio-economic issues andmuch more. being involved in International/Global business, Cross-cultural mangement and marketing is very different than just domestic business and managemnt issues. In this sense I have to consider my strategies 24*7 to have sustainable competitive advantage over other compeition through my strategic leadership, core competencies and value chain propositions and much more to get above average returns and make all stakeholders satisfied to maintain brand equity, cutomer satisfaction and loyal and much much more. I have been doing this even before you were born. Let me tell you that we Asians are fatalistic and think in circular logic in contrast to western logic of logic and rationality and linear time frame. Asians value ascription to that of merit in the west, Asian love stratified society to that of western of egalitarianism but this is extreme example and all things have continuum from one extreme to other. Asians are paternalistic to that of Nordic countries being feministic. Asians love collectivism in corast to westerners being individualistic and competition is the way to go. Asians do not like ambiguous situation in contrast to westerners being comfortable with such situation and much more. these generalisations come from empirical evidence and has limtations. However, it canteach us something. So think cool before you say something. Reflect what you have said it and get the feedback and that is social learning as part of life long learning to be better every day as we GROW and not CROW.