One communication trap that U.S. business leaders may fall into is a (costly) disregard for the importance of building and maintaining personal relationships when dealing with individuals from high-context cultures.
Washington politicians are pointing the U.S. economy straight into a liquidity trap and instead of a bright economic future, the U.S. is looking at years of high unemployment, weak GDP growth and the possibility of widespread deflation.
At a time when cyber espionage by Russia and China is one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security today, Intel is helping build a billion-dollar honey trap (aka Skolkovo) for U.S. companies in Russia.
One merely needs to decline any offer for currency conversion when making a purchase and only sign receipts showing purchases in the local currency rather than in U.S. dollars, for example to avoid this trap.
The guru who got a first-term U.S. senator with a middle name of Hussein elected president was pushed yesterday through a trap door into a much different world.