Don’t worry when your international business partners don’t make eye contact

I was talking to a friend about eye contact recently. He’s German and he works for a British fashion company and spends a lot of time at meetings in the North of England. I asked him if he’d noticed any difference in the way people make eye contact, because although I’ve lived in Germany most of my life, I still find German eye contact a little intense.  He agreed with me. “I’ve noticed that my British colleagues don’t look...