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Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Marco, I'm glad it was helpful. It sure was for me when I was traveling globally.
Great article Heidi. I think in recent times, "Managed work" has gotten a bad name. This is probably for two reasons. 1-Too many managers want to be "the boss" and tell people what to do. If the employee is mainly in a training or development mode, taking directives is appropriate, but as the employee develops, continued directives could become counter-productive. 2-Today, with more creative, innovative environments due to more rapid change that we're going through, directives from the "boss" might not be very helpful unless he has a great deal of experience on the issue being worked on. You're sure right that good supervision and guidance still have important roles to play.