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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: Peregrinations
Description: Many people in Rhode Island have never been to Boston, let alone New York. I’ve coached a very successful entrepreneur who has never been to New York and doesn’t wish to go. Most people can’t locate Bolivia or Laos (or Nebraska) on a map.
When Americans in a survey were asked the three most famous Japanese they could think of, it was Bruce Lee, Yoko Ono, and Godzilla. Or not?
Through my travels abroad, I learned:
- To eat “European style.”
- People are far more multi-lingual than we are.
- Computers in foreign airport restrooms tell you how ma...