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...Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with an overly familiar, laid-back style in locales where "business casual" is an oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere: skipping tea drinking in Asia, for example, and forsaking small talk to rush headlong into negotiations. In some parts of Asia and the Middle East, guests should never clean their plate; if they do, it's a sign that they are still hungry...
...POLO: Who hasn't been...
...M.B.A. student in 1980, worked hard, married, started a family and rose to a top job at GE, having been recruited by Jack Welch himself. Then, in 1999, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, an Indian conglomerate, called him back to India. He asked Paul, a former water-polo captain, to take over his software unit, Wipro Technologies. "He said, 'You can build another skyscraper in New York,'" Paul says, "'or you can build a completely new thing in India.'" Paul took the challenge. He transformed Wipro Technologies from a $150 million software developer into a $1 billion force in offshore...
...don’t know if [the water polo players] had to dance, or if they had a stalker, or what,” he added...
...could have been worse, I suppose. Later that night, three members of the men’s water polo team went for $675, far more than Noah and Ryan raked...