Everything I Know About Business I Learned in….
Welcome to our blog! This will be more than a travel log. It will be a forum to extract the knowledge offered by others who might not think like we do. Here we will share our (hopefully) insightful thoughts and experiences of traveling and working in a global economy and how we take those experiences and apply them to business to help our clients and ourselves learn from the diversity we experience when immersing ourselves in other cultures.
This knowledge can be particularly helpful when managing organizational change. In particular, managing communications during times of change is a challenge that all organizations experience at some time or another, whether it is transitioning to a new market or from a private to publicly-traded company and back again. The genesis of Up-Think is wanderlust. In our free time, we travel as much as we can — to Europe, Asia and Central and South America. Along the way, we’ve learned that adjusting to other cultures, languages, sights, sounds and smells is a lot like managing the ever-changing nuances of marketing your business – constantly adjusting, interpreting and seeking feedback from those around you. Adapting in a strange world is as much about getting to know and finding ways to communicate with and read those around you as success in business is knowing your customers and adapting to changing market conditions. With Up-Think you get the benefit of working with people who, despite the challenges of uncharted territory, say, ‘what the heck’ and then jump on the back of a “moto” in Vietnam, or the subway in Tokyo knowing that half the joy is in the experience of learning and taking calculated risks.So, Bon Voyage! We’re happy you can join us for part of our trip.
