Innocents Abroad Harry and Sally

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Innocents Abroad Harry And Sally in

Saudia Arabia

What went wrong and why did these people make these mistakes?

There were a lot of mistakes that they made when they decided to do business in Saudia Arabia. All the mistakes that where done all around their lack of knowledge of the country. The first mistake was to try to it by certain day in a different continent without taking into account time change and flight delays. They should have plan to get there a day before their first meeting to let them get use to the time change. The delay part could have been sold if they would have plan to get there early. The second mistake was to go into a foreign country without having knowledge of the country. They did not know the language which made it hard for them to communicate. They should have try to set something or someone to be responsible to transport them around.

If they would have search about the culture they would have known that Sally would not have been allow at any of the meetings. They would have realize that there was no reason for her to travel. When doing business in Saudia Arabia they would have known that they don't to rush in to doing business. They like to take their time when deciding on doing big business. Whenever you travel to another country it is important to know that it is not safe to eat food anywhere. The main reason because your body it is not use to the ingredients that they use you can be ill. The other reason is that you don't know how it was prepared or cooked.

When you decide to travel to do business you always need to make sure that your organized on doing business. For example, if you know that their culture are fast in doing business you know you might only have to be there for few days, but if they take their time it might takes a two weeks or more. They made this mistakes because they did not took their time to know the culture. It is important when doing business because this could cause the deal. The...