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Intercultural Readiness: Four Competences for Working Across Cultures
Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management...
Category: Management
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected...
Carol Wall, a white woman living in a lily-white neighbourhood in Middle America, was at a crossroads in her life. Her children were grown; she...
Category: Race
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context
Students with a strong grasp of the complete conceptual framework of OB theories have a greater understanding of its managerial implications, as well as their...
Category: Management
Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life
Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on...
Category: Communication & Branding
Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities
For courses in Success/Orientation, Diversity (ie. Managing Diversity), Race and Ethnic Relations, Cultural Diversity in the Workplace, Multiculturalism and Inclusion (ie. leadership, group dynamics, teaching,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Organizational Communication: Approaches and Processes
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: APPROACHES AND PROCESSES presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective. Professor Miller's clear writing style and consistent use of examples...
Category: Communication & Branding
Individual Cultural Intelligence. A Comparison to Other Individual Models of...
RELEVANCE Organizational success in international business depends heavily on the individual’s ability to manage cross-cultural interaction. There is a growing organizational demand to assess and...
Category: Communication, Management
Cross-Cultural Management: A Transactional Approach
The internationalization of business via the process of globalization has brought issues of culture to the forefront of management thinking. Although culture is by no...
Category: Management
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark...
Category: Transition
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective....
Category: Communication & Branding
Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary...
The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It’s not about how smart you are, but how...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
Canadian Workplace Culture: Mastering the Unspoken Rules
What nobody will ever tell you about succeeding in Canada! Matt Adolphe, an internationally-experienced communication expert, explains why certain behaviours don t work in Canada...
Category: Country Specific, Latest Books
Cross-Cultural Communications with Success
The purpose of this book is to provide further awareness of many situations and types of misunderstandings, both within and in cross-cultural settings, focusing on...
Category: Communication
Communication across Cultures: Mutual Understanding in a Global World
Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language...
Category: Communication & Branding
Expand Your Borders: Discover Ten Cultural Clusters
In bestsellers such as Leading with Cultural Intelligence and Serving with Eyes Wide Open, David Livermore has taught readers how to develop their cultural intelligence,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Management: Culture and Management across the World
All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When...
Category: Management
Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment of Diverse...
The Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health, Second Edition, discusses the impact of cultural, ethnic, and racial variables for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, service delivery, and development of...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Race
Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership...
Unique in its focus, methodology, and impact, Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness in 24 Countries is a must-have for...
Category: Leadership
Culture Clash 2: Managing the Global High-Performance Team
Flying blind with customers, colleagues, collaborators or competitors? Frustrated by misunderstandings or conflicts with other organizational silos or cultures? Learn the #1 skill: how to...
Category: Management, Teams
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially...
“The best-selling author’s creativity is evident throughout. . . . A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book...
Category: Communication, Our Reading List
The Human Equity Advantage: Beyond Diversity to Talent Optimization
A fresh approach to the old problem of "diversity fatigue" Trevor Wilson, global diversity strategist and visionary leader, presents a fresh, new management model that...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Determining Strategies For Cross-cultural Training- India Based MNC: Multinational companies...
Growing number of MNCs have been attracted to India and many more are planning to enter India. This research work seeks to analyze the experience...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors...
Category: Country Specific
The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will...
The culmination of six years of research and development, The Work of Leaders presents a simple structure that neatly captures the complexity of contemporary leadership. The goal...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication
The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower...
Your go-to guide for building and maintaining champion level teams and then leading your team to the peak level of success regardless of the field...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere: 5 Keys To Successful Cross-Cultural...
The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturallySay Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key guidelines to create rapport and organize strategies...
Category: Communication
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds...
Category: Latest Books, Teams
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers―and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles....
Category: Decision Making, Latest Books
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key...
Category: Management
Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom
The Matrix Model Management System is a much-needed framework for cross cultural expertise. The field-tested Matrix System is an innovative tool for story-based communication, conflict...
Category: Communication, Conflict, Management
Models for Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation
This book is the first to bring together research material from different communities, Computer Science and especially Artificial Intelligence, and Social Sciences, e.g. Anthropology, Social Psychology,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Psychology & Counselling
Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context: Perspectives on the Psychology of...
This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human...
Category: Psychology
Intercultural Relations: Communication, Identy and Conflict
Even in a world made smaller every day by the Internet and social media, we sometimes experience culture shock when interacting with others. Fortunately for...
Category: Communication & Branding, Conflict
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century,...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity
Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity teaches readers to uncover and understand the complexities of managing diversity through a unique dialogue of opportunity. Through its...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity
Constant, continuing, and cataclysmic change is causing a major crisis within business organizations today. Faced with constantly advancing technology, unpredictable market shifts, intense global competition,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Using revealing stories from complex situations he has been involved in all over the world - the Middle East, South Africa, Europe, India, Guatemala, the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts
This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services
With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are often produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration...
Category: Technical
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural...
Short-term mission trips are great ways to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants....
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from...
Since the 1990s, a transformation has occurred within the role of human resources departments. HR professionals are being called upon to help determine priorities in...
Category: Human Resource
e-Negotiations: Networking and Cross-Cultural Business Transactions
Practical negotiating skills, including those needed for cross-cultural negotiations have long been taught in classrooms, along with some of the theory that underpins them. Most...
Category: Communication
Cross-cultural management textbook: Lessons from the world leading experts in...
Cross-Cultural Management Textbook is a practical course-book that synthesizes in a practical way contemporary cross-cultural communication and management knowledge for students and professionals. It is the...
Category: Management
Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals
CULTURAL AGILITY Succeeding in today’s global economy requires organizations to acquire, develop, and retain professionals who can operate effectively around the world, irrespective of country...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Intercultural Competence as a universal Interculture
Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1, Berlin School of Economics, language: English,...
Category: Communication
Building Cultural Competence: Innovative Activities and Models
For college administrators, diversity trainers, study abroad educators, HR directors, and corporate trainers, this book provides a cutting-edge framework and an innovative collection of ready-to-...
Category: Human Resource
Essential Concepts of Cross-Cultural Management: Building on What We All...
You may recognize the statement on the back cover of so many textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce--'to help you understand and appreciate the...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Analysis: The Science and Art of Comparing the World′s...
Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture′s Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today′s times....
Category: Cross Cultural, Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Team Building: Fundamentals, practices, and reliability
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Intercultural...
Category: Teams
Being Global: How to Think, Act, and Lead in a...
What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that...
Category: Leadership
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong...
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example...
Category: Communication & Branding
Assessing Cultural Exposure: An Improved Framework for the Assessment of...
This study focuses on the many dimensions of cultural intelligence (CQ); during the study, a detailed framework of CQ Dimensions was constructed that later was...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion
The Four Skills of Cultural Diversity Competence
Hogan's updated fourth edition of FOUR SKILLS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMPETENCE: A PROCESS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE provides you with the tools necessary to help...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: A Guide for Global Management
The theme of this new edition of Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is CHANGE. First of all, cultures change. In markets around the world, business behavior is...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management
The book offers an introduction to cross cultural management through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business...
Category: Management
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take...
Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Successful Cross- Cultural Management: A Guide for International Managers
This book outlines the particulars of cross-cultural management and is a guidebook for international managers. The book not only discusses the general aspects of how...
Category: Management
Content Preparation Guidelines for the Web and Information Appliances: Cross-Cultural...
Content preparation is an integral part of the usability equation: it answers the question of what information is needed for effective decision making. Once content...
Category: Decision Making
Make Haste SLOWLY!: Growing effective intercultural communication
Sustainable growth happens gradually! Here you will find the resources to stimulate reproductive growth among the people you serve. The first edition of this book...
Category: Communication & Branding
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck-Why Some Thrive Despite...
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling is a brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise,...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
What is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors that Define Great...
What is global leadership? It turns out that many companies around the world are missing a key point: that global leadership is distinctly different from...
Category: Leadership
The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can’t...
As an award-winning author and global business leader, David Livermore applies his social science and cultural intelligence (CQ) expertise to teach others how to thrive...
Category: Leadership, Management
Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in the New Global...
Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and...
Category: Country Specific, Management
Corporate Culture: The Ultimate Strategic Asset
Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we...
Category: Management
International Management Ethics: A Critical, Cross-cultural Perspective
What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management...
Category: Management
Facilitating Intergroup Dialogues: Bridging Differences, Catalyzing Change
“This is an invaluable resource for college administrators and faculty. As today’s elected leaders and media shout past one another, our next generation needs to...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Diversity & Inclusion
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Spiritual Survival Handbook for Cross-Cultural Workers
The fight for survival is real. You serve-or are preparing to serve-in the spiritually desolate areas of our world. The elements you face each day...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the field, its historical inception,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Latest Books
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Makes an...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Intercultural Communication: A Reader
This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER...
Category: Communication & Branding
Multinationals and Cross-Cultural Management: The Transfer of Knowledge within Multinational...
Globalisation makes our world appear smaller: it is easier to connect, communicate and do business with people all over the world. But cultural differences remain...
Category: Management
Culturally Intelligent Leadership: Essential Concepts to Leading and Managing Intercultural...
The purpose of this book is to outline the important ideas of cultural intelligence and the steps that must be considered and then practiced to...
Category: Leadership
Global Coaching: An Integrated Approach for Long-Lasting Results
The need for a "master level" of coaching has never been greater in the global economy and interconnected world in which we live. Global Coaching inspires managers...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating
Appreciative Merger and Acquisition Team Coaching Programme: Transforming the Soul...
This book aims to provide a detailed, step-by-step programme to enable smooth cross-cultural integration in the hospitality industry, simultaneously offering a way to improve the...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
American Citizen, Global Citizen: How Expanding Our Identities Makes Us...
Sweeping the globe from Seoul to Amsterdam, London to Japan, American Citizen, Global Citizen is now being released for the first time in the United...
Category: Country Specific
Intercultural Communication
Updates key theories of intercultural communication Explores the ways in which people communicate within and across social groups around three themes. These include identity, Othering, and representation...
Category: Communication & Branding
Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual...
Do you want to improve your relationships and experience lasting personal change? Join Curt Thompson, M.D., on an amazing journey to discover the surprising pathways...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectives Based...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
Solving the People Puzzle: Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces
The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
CQ: Developing Cultural Intelligence at Work
This book explains to those living and working in another country how to identify and develop their Cultural Intelligence, or CQ. Cultural intelligence is an...
Category: Management, Transition
Cross-cultural Management: Text and Cases
And, as multinational corporations (MNCs) and Transnational Corporations (TNCs) spread their wings across nations with numerous employees of different nationalities, with their different cultures, different...
Category: Management
International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading
Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current...
Category: Management
How to Win Friends and Influence People
You can go after the job you want—and get it! You can take the job you have—and improve it! You can take any situation—and make...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect...
Category: Leadership
Leading With Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success
Why are some leaders able to create trust and negotiate contracts with Chinese, Latin Americans, and Germans all in the same day, while others are...
Category: Leadership
Intercultural Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication (Research and...
Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication....
Category: Intercultural Communication
International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide
International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award as the book...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
Cross-Cultural Research Methods
Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory Measurement and Application
Cultural intelligence is defined as an individual's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity. With contributions from eminent scholars worldwide, the "Handbook...
Category: Intercultural Communication, Management
52 Activities for Improving Cross-Cultural Communication
Communication styles and patterns differ vastly among people from different cultures. Every culture has a "communication style norm" and when that style mixes with another,...
Category: Communication & Branding
Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with...
Whether you run a giant corporation or work in a small business, it’s more than likely that you regularly deal with people of different cultures―from...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Leadership: (XLQ)
As the speed of globalization increases, as companies become flatter, as firms engage in temporary organizations from joint ventures to alliances, and as more business...
Category: Leadership
Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World
Twenty-first-century society is diverse, and Christians must be able to understand other cultures and communicate effectively between and among them. Following up on the bestselling...
Category: Communication & Branding
