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Text Box: July 08 Newsletter
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Next event on September
ILPMA Survey
New job offerings 
This month’s article: Israeli Vs American culture
Upcoming local/global events
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Agile 2008 Conference,

August 4-8, Toronto
http://www.agile2008.org/

 

Business of Software 2008,

3-4 September,  Boston

http://www.businessofsoftware.org/

 

Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit,
8-10 September, Washington, DC
http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=611509

 

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit,
10 - 11  September, London, UK

 http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=613312

 

IDC Business Continuity and Security Conference 2008, Ireland,

11 September, Dublin, Ireland

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P15258

 

Gartner Business Process Management Summit,

10 - 12  September, Washington, DC

http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=611409

 

16th International Requirements Engineering Conference,

8-12 September, Barcelona, Spain

http://sites.upc.edu/~www-gessi/re08/index.html

 

Gartner Event Processing Summit,

15 - 16  September, Stamford, CT

http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=616710

 

Web 2.0 Expo NY,

16-19 September , New York, US

http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home

 

 

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We would like to thank everyone who participated in last month survey and proud to share the results with you:

1. How did you get your first product management job?
63% change role in the same company
22% used their personal and business network
11% used the services of HR companies.

2. What was your role before your first product management job?
46% development/engineering background
16% project management
16% pre-sale.
The rest moved from QA, marketing and other departments.

3. Which topics are of the most interest to you?
The most interested topics were
direct issues on
product management and product marketing.

The survey showed also high interest in topics of  soft skills, management skills and UI.

We will study the results and do our best to fit
future events to your interests and requests.

Our new survey is about product
management groups in the organization. You are welcome to enter and submit your
answers.
To participate in the survey, click here.

We appreciate your participation in these surveys and hope you’ll find them interesting and useful. If you have any specific questions you would like us to survey, please send them by email to
editor@ILPMA.org.

Read more on Israeli-American Intercultural Advantage here.

Alon Refaeli sent us a link from Globes which gives a humoristic view of foreign behavior in the eyes of an Israeli.
Read the article
here.

We would like to thank Ziv and Alon for sharing these articles with us and invite you to send more interesting materials to editor@ILPMA.org and we will publish them in our newsletters.

This Month’s Article:

Israeli Vs American culture

In our last event, Margot Paz talked about the cultural differences.
Ziv Gonen sent us a summary of a public talk about the Israeli vs American culture sponsored by Zango.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When an American says….

The American may mean…

An Israeli may hear / think…

Our approach towards X poses some challenges.

Our approach has problems that must be solved.

Great -- finally things are getting interesting, challenge is good.

There are issues with X. Or…

I have a concern regarding X.

There are problems with X that must be addressed - they might be serious enough to make X not doable.

We can continue with X as we had intended - there might be some more discussion over some aspects that are worrying you, but nothing serious is wrong.

You might want to consider…

The way it is now needs to be changed because there is a problem…

Why should I consider another way? That isn’t relevant because it doesn’t sound like there’s any problem with the way it is now.

Did I understand you correctly when you said Y?

I am amazed that you said something so wrong or stupid.

Looks like I need to explain again because they didn’t understand the first time.

I would appreciate if you could get this to me by Thursday.

The drop-dead deadline for this is Thursday.

It would be nice to get it done by Thursday, but not essential. Later than Thursday will also be OK.

I’ll make an effort to get this to you by Thursday.

I didn’t really commit, so it’s optional whether I’ll change priorities or try harder than usual.

I can count on you doing everything possible for this, including working extremely longer hours than usual.

When an Israeli says…

The Israeli may mean…

An American might hear / think…

You have to listen to me

I want to get your attention .

You’re ordering me around in a very arrogant way!

You are wrong

I disagree with your point of view and want to discuss it some more so that we can reach agreement on the best approach.

You are insulting me.  Also, clearly there’s no room for discussion because you have negated me. Looks like I should back off and not discuss this anymore.

OK, I understand,  let’s move on

I understand and agree with your point, i.e., you have persuaded me.

 

 

You’re not really willing to listen to me because you actually think that what I have to say isn’t of any value, and you just want to avoid further discussion.

It’s your fault that we did X

Or

You were the one who decided on this.

I need you to acknowledge that is wasn’t my fault. However, that has nothing to do with our working together as respectful colleagues.

You don’t respect me because you’re blaming me. I don’t think we are going to be able to work together.

Your presentation was OK

Your presentation was really good .

You didn’t like my presentation.

Why don’t you do it another way?

I’m giving you a helpful suggestion. I’m interested in bettering the result.

You are really insulting my work.