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Best Advice I Ever Got

- Aprajita Sharma

What was the problem you were grappling with?

In my first job with Emerson Electric in Hong Kong, we hired a promising, young MBA. However, our new hire, of Chinese origin, started finding it difficult to blend into our multi-cultural environment. I was struggling to get across to him and his performance was less than acceptable. I despaired that we would have to let him go.