Anki has called New York City and Broadway her home for over 25 years. If you are lucky you might catch her on the enormous Nasdaq screen high above Broadway living the song her father…
Posts TaggedFinland
Having a Baby Abroad – My blog post for Wall Street Journal
I had an opportunity to contribute to Wall Street Journal’s Expat site recently with a blog about having your first child abroad. To have, or not to have, your first child while on your first…
Creating Successful Business Relationships across Cultures
Do your Finnish team members never seem to express emotions? Do your Swedish clients take an eternity to make a decision? Have you ever been frustrated at your American coworkers’ braggadocio? Cultural differences in communications…
Finnish SISU
A couple of years ago I gave a presentation on SISU-Resilience the Finnish Way at a conference. Today I’d like to revisit and elaborate on that topic . In Finland we have something called Sisu….
A Familiar but Foreign Game Decoded: My Search for Finnish Baseball or Pesäpallo
By Philip DiDio European vacations inspire dreams of cathedrals, museums, Mediterranean beaches, speedy train rides arriving on schedules defined by 24 hour clocks. It’s the Europe of the Mission Impossible and Bourne movie cycles. My…