by Brian Crawford | Mar 18, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture
A while back I posted three tips for traveling the world. Today I’m going to introduce four more tips. And of course, I am always interested in hearing about even more tips for making traveling the globe more enjoyable; let me know if you have any! Tip 4: Travel...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 28, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture, Project Management
Recently I’ve become the project manager of an international project with participants spread throughout six different countries on three separate continents: North America, Europe and Asia. We have been meeting to discuss a variety of different requirements...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 1, 2011 | International Business, Language and Culture
I’ve been known to do some traveling now and then… I have one British and one Canadian parent, both fond of experiencing the world, so as a kid I managed to make it to Europe and various parts of the United States and Canada, and for a summer I even lived...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 1, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is Canada Day and being a Canadian native living in the United States I have been fielding many questions about the holiday. A lot of my friends are aware that it is Canada Day (it’s on their calendars, or Canadian friends living here in the Deep South...
by Brian Crawford | May 5, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday that takes place annually on the fifth of May. Here in the United States Cinco de Mayo is widely celebrated, even by those not of Mexican or Mexican-American origin – this evening great numbers of people will be eating...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 21, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
This weekend we’re experiencing the Vernal Equinox; one of two times of the year when the hours of light in the day are equal to the hours of darkness at nighttime (the term “equinox” is derived from the Latin aequus, meaning equal, and nox, meaning...