small talk before the meeting perhaps, and Talk about their family.
Your dog had puppies, that's wonderful.
How's your baby?
I heard she was sick last week.
How's your wife?
A little small talk before the meeting, before the presentation, that's normal.
Americans like doing things like that.
And they're more open to questions and challenges.
It's like you know I don't think that's true.
And go yeah well I think it's true.
They're more open to discussion I think than most people do.
But I found in China for
example Chinese people don't really like to challenge Western people.
They think it's disrespectful, and they won't disagree so much.
So this causes miscommunications, and
misunderstandings like we talked about a little bit before, okay.
Meetings, meetings you're going to do a lot of meetings.
If you graduate from Beijing University,
you're going to be working in a white collar job somewhere.
You're not going to be working on the farm okay.
So you're going to be going to meetings, and a lot of meetings.
I don't know if you've ever been an intern yet working at a corporation but
that's what corp companies do, meetings after meetings after meetings.
And a lot of them waste time.
They're not well-prepared.
People don't really take them seriously sometimes.
They just go there to sit there and eat a doughnut, listen to somebody, and leave.