I kept coming back to something small: the differen
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What's The Loop System™ and why it works
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I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.
What's the Slot System™ and why it works
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I moved to London in 2015 and did what any newly arrived Argentine in a new city would do: signed up for everything.
One of those things was my local book clu...
The decade of observation that built Slots v. Loops™
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Some systems arrive as ideas. This one arrived as a pattern: noticed once, then again, then so consistently that ignoring it stopped being an opti
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Your LatAm counterpart's English isn't your English
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In 2004, Jean-Paul Nerrière coined the term Globish — a blend of global and English — to describe the English spoken around the world by non-native speakers. It...
3 Tips for speaking via interpreters
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Working via interpreters is one of those situations that tends to catch people off guard, even experienced professionals. And yet, for many British-LatAm intera...
The lunch menu & LatAm diplomats
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Contrary to popular belief, sometimes it is easier to translate a meeting about infrastructure and digital modelling than it is a simple lunch menu.
No, I...
When spotting the friction beats speaking the language
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Speaking the other language is a strong asset. But it only accounts for less than half of what you communicate. The other half — the non-verbal, the relational,...
One less meeting, one more friend
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As a self-confessed foodie and a born and bred Latin American, I consider food and meals (especially shared ones) to be a central and most enjoyable part of l...
Applying Slots v. Loops™ to trade
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Everyone in British–LatAm trade knows the principle: people do business with people. It is repeated at trade missions, cited in market entry reports, ackn
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THE BRITISH-LATAM FRICTION SCORECARD
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A personalised read of where your British-LatAm friction actually lives. The kind of specific information that changes how you walk into your next meeting. Used by British & LatAm professionals. Takes 4 minutes.
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