Darin Brumby Business Quotations

When in any new culture, it's common sense to demonstrate basic restraint, tolerance and to show a desire to learn. To me, that is more about engendering good relations than going in holding a business card and saying if I do this at least they will think I have tried.

We had been IT-led before my arrival. We had to change governance and say to the business units 'it is your money we are spending' - without a business sponsor there is no IT project. These investments are business decisions.

So if you were going to give a business presentation in Scandinavia, you would give it to your relationship peer to check it. You start to learn what is going to be accepted and what is not.