I'll always be grateful to Adriana Cronin-Lukas, blogbiz-expert and Samizdatista, for getting this site up and running last year. Travelling back and forth between the US and the UK, she's come to the conclusion that the Brits need to shift up a gear:
Talking to people in America about what I do is vastly different from doing the same in the UK...In the US people tend to first make an effort to understand what I am talking about, then ask how much? and how would you go about it technically? and what’s next? In the UK, it’s more like, hmm, that’s fascinating, but… and start coming up with reasons why it’s not going to work or pointing out (correctly) that it’s going to be difficult to get paid for it....
The Brits are scroungers when it comes to paying for expertise, they like to get things for free under the guise of deciding whether to buy or not. I wonder whether this is why the decision-making process takes six times longer than anywhere else in the developed world.
Or should we change gear, is diversity not healthy?
Posted by: Jenks | Monday, December 05, 2005 at 02:26 PM