Nine managers were chosen from tesco is six asian subsidiaries: two each from thailand, south korea, and china its largest asian markers and one each from malaysia, japan and india. this asian project team was then brought to the UK, trained in skills needed to observe and make sense of organizational behavior, values, and assumptions (a kind of corporate ethnography), and deployed for a three-month period to observe and work in 52 stores across the UK and lreland. The task of helping tesco reinvigorate home operations was not easy; nor had it been easy to find nine managers who could leave their job for an extended three-month period. In the end, the main criteria stipulated that team members had to have worked for tesco for at least three years, had a working knowledge of English, and were store-level employees rather than country-level managers. The team was also assessed on various cultural adaptability skills needed to get by in a foreign environment, such as flexibility and openness, emotional resilience, and personal autonomy