Learn young, learn fair!

In Japan, students can follow a course of cross cultural negotiations in order to develop skills for dealing with countries abroad.

The course "East-West Negotiations" is based on actual business negotiations and teaches students some general rules about how to trade with foreigners. After graduating, students will posses about more business experience and more knowledge about other cultures .

I am convinced that some training at university level would be a big advantage over competitors. Further on, a trainee is not only more competitive against other cultures, but also against his own nationals. That’s why I believe it is a good idea to integrate such a course at the University of Ghent, because  I don’t think I will be familiar with difficulties in cross cultural negotiations within 3 years.

 If I would be the prime minister of Belgium, I would already introduce this course from secondary school. Learn young, learn fair!

Ken Merckaert

Source :

http://www2.gol.com/users/cpwells/Negot.html