Table of Contents STATE OF THE NATION REPORT GOOD GROWTH PROSPECTS HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS RE... read more

Table of Contents NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION RECORD FOREIGN RESERVES A NEW FIRST: DEFLATION ... read more

Table of Contents RETHINKING AIRPORT LOCATION FLORIDA-YUCATAN CARR FERRY AUTOMOTIVE FACTORY FOR THE WORLD? ... read more

A scheduled upcoming visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi could mark the start of an official round of free-trade talks between Japan and Mexico, a leading Japanese business leader told B... read more

Late last year (2001) the Mexican Congress decided to get off their behinds and bring about a badly needed tax reform. Not liking what President Fox proposed, they waited until the very last days of of... read more

Business people in Mexico will tell you, as most business people will, that business meals are important rituals considered well-spent perks, since often business people work long hours and are away fr... read more

Making teams more productive is a constant issue for most managers. Productivity is, of course, the essence of what makes businesses competitive, but it is particularly important in times of economic s... read more

Is culture shock, as experienced by many ex-pats and their families, a psychological or a cultural issue? I was recently involved in a discussion group where this issue was debated. All of us agreed th... read more

In the past, the term "customer" always meant the external public, those clients that justify the very existence of a corporation. It was a term especially important in service organizations, since the... read more

In my experience as a cross-cultural consultant, the issue that seems to most bother non-Mexican businesspeople about their Mexican counterparts is their apparent lack of frankness in dealing with conf... read more

I recently attended a two-day seminar about the strategies Mexican companies should follow in order to compete successfully in a globalized economy. Economic globalization is creating new and stiffer c... read more

In the 1980s, many companies in the United States, aware that their employees' personal problems were affecting their performance, began to create Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) to help workers dea... read more

- Is it "all for one and one for all" or "everyone for themselves" in your workplace?   Commentary by Ilya Adler © 2002 His e-mail: ilyaadler09@aol.com   When you have the oppor... read more

Recently, during one of the seminars I give in the United States about Latin culture, someone asked me what I saw as the single most important characteristic that would make Latin managers more effecti... read more

Cultures considered to be monochronic are those that stress completing one task before embarking on the next. On the opposite end, there are polychronic cultures, in which people tend to do various tas... read more

The Nafta partnership has always been a puzzling proposition: Could a free-trade agreement between two developed countries (the United States and Canada) and a developing one (Mexico) work out as a via... read more

Not too long ago, the term "business ethics" was considered an oxymoron. Fortunately, in recent years, companies have been paying more attention to developing and maintaining ethical standards among t... read more

Table of Contents NEW ECONOMIC INDICATORS AXTEL COMPETES FOR LOCAL PHONE MARKET IS MEXICO CITY EXPENSIVE? ... read more

Table of Contents LATIN AMERICA'S TALLEST BUILDING VITRO ACQUIRES CRISTALGLASS OPPOSITION TO TOURIST MEGAPROJECT? ... read more

Table of Contents STATE OF THE NATION REPORT GENERAL GOALS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FIGHT AGAINST POVE... read more

Table of Contents PRODUCTIVITY ON THE RISE BOEING TO OPEN MEXICO CITY OFFICE RECORD FOREIGN RESERVES ... read more

When I was in college, national development was a hot topic. We pondered over why some countries develop their economies faster than others. One popular notion was that for countries to develop quickly... read more

Much has been written and discussed about the impact that cultural differences have on the way we conduct business and manage people. In this column, I have covered various aspects of cross-cultural pr... read more

Remember what your parents would tell you when you were a kid and had a fight with a friend? "Stop fighting! It's not nice to fight!" Later, when you had your first important relationship, you found yo... read more

Businesspeople love to measure things. We measure sales and profits, which is easy enough, but then we also want to measure everything else. This is called the 'administrative bias' of the business wor... read more