These are some top 10 tips for doing business in Mexico:
1) In Mexico, personal relationships are the heart of most business actions. Take time to grow strong and lasting relationships.
2) Even though the impact of foreign multinational corporation (MNC) cannot be disregarded, most indigenous Mexican companies will be hierarchical in structure.
3) People from the USA are `North America` rather than `American`.
4) Key decisions are made by small number of people at the top of the ranking. Ensure that you are dealing with the perfect people.
5) make sure that you send people of the right level of seniority to deal with Mexican colleagues. Do not insult people by sending your subordinate colleagues to work with older, more superior Mexican managers.
6) Mexican managers are tend to be instructional and presume to give direct orders to subordinates.
7) As in many hierarchical cultures, the manager subordinate relationship is a reciprocal one. In exchange for loyalty, the bosses take personal interest in the well-being of subordinates.
8) Please, try not to condemn other openly in meetings as this could be construed as a discredit and have a severe bad long-term impact on your relationship in Mexico.
9) Do not be astonished if standard of punctuality do not meet your expectations. Time is a commodity and begin and finish times should be viewed as estimates
10) Agendas are not always utilized in meetings and if they are available, it will not always be strictly followed.
Cultural issues: (Ali-Jumah Toure) language- Mexico culture represents the difficulty of the country history through the merging of the indigenous cultures and the cultures of Spain affected during the three hundred year colonization of Mexico. The exogenous cultural component has been incorporated into Mexico as time as time passed.
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