Asking for help

I wrote in an earlier post about assumptions, and adjusting them for a new environment. One way to do that is to ask open-ended questions.
A good example is my check anecdote from before. As I noted, when looking to pay vendors or employees, Germans tend to think in terms of elecronic transfers. US businesspeople, on the other hand, think in terms of checks. Each is a means to an end, but the end remains the goal of paying a vendor for goods or services.
The open ended question is “how do I pay my vendors,” leading (hopefully) to a …read more