Navigating Cultural Differences in Team Management with Mike Larsen

So what's the biggest difference? Well, what are the differences between them? When I land in the uk, the first day with your team, what do you do? You say, hey, go to the pub tonight, pints on me. You know, that's how you get to know people. Yeah. In Hong Kong. No. And the same in Singapore as well. It's a no. Exactly. No. It was definitely like, let's go to dim sum, let's go to lunch. You feed people, you either feed them drinks or feed them food. But Asia, it's much more. Yeah, it's take people out to lunch, get to know them. It's also, I think it's really important to learn how to manage different teams. As a leader, I think it's our job to adapt to the team versus this is how I manage people. And they figure it out that that doesn't really work. And you manage a team out in Asia, it's. If you have a meeting, no one's going to speak. If you're the manager, speak last. Because once you say something, no one else says anything, so you always speak last. Let everyone speak first. And most of them won't actually say what they're really thinking. So you need a lot of one ones before and after the meeting to get the real feedback of what they're really thinking. And there's incredibly smart people. And how do you get their ideas out? Because, trust me, I do not have the best ideas. It's how do you get those best ideas out of your team?