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Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making: Proceedings of the AHFE 2017...
This book reports on the latest advances in understanding cross-cultural decision and human cognition with respect to various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological,...
Category: Decision Making
Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change
Embrace Diversity and Thrive As An Organization In the rapidly changing business landscape, harnessing the power of diversity and inclusion is essential for the very...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, Assessment and Application
Intercultural Competence in Higher Education features the work of scholars and international education practitioners in understanding the learning outcomes of internationalization, moving beyond rhetoric to concrete...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
Do people see you as the kind of leader you want to be? Are your strongest leadership qualities getting in the way of your greatness?...
Category: Leadership, Management
Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Communicating Across Cultures at Work
This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
Fosters the proficiency in intercultural communication vital for students to thrive in private and public life Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students...
Category: Communication & Branding
International and Cross-Cultural Business Research
Successfully combining cross-cultural management and business research methods, this team of international authors provide much-needed coverage of the implications that should be considered when undertaking...
Category: Management
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...
Category: Communication, Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication
Fundamentals of Cross Cultural Communication
With so much business happening on a global scale, cross-cultural communication is more important than ever before. Communication is always a challenge, and when diverse...
Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village
Succeed in Any Culture, in Every Situation In today's global economy, the ability to interact effectively across cultures is a fundamental job requirement for just...
Category: Leadership
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers
Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Global Communication and Collaboration: Global Project Management, Global Sourcing, Cross-Cultural...
Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing. The author explains how working...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
How to Win Friends and Influence People
TIME-TESTED, ROCK-SOLID ADVICE THAT HAS CARRIED THOUSANDS OF NOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE UP THE LADDER OF SUCCESS IN THEIR BUSINESS AND PERSONAL LIVES A classic book...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference
How much culture lurks in common conversation? According to Craig Storti, so much that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges-in social settings, on...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Communication & Branding
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right...
The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Culture Crossing: Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in...
People, money, and information are flowing faster than ever across international borders, putting us all just one step away from a culture crash—that moment when...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership....
Category: Leadership, Organizational Culture and Consulting
Critical Issues in Cross Cultural Management
This stimulating book surveys the research on the challenges and opportunities encountered when working within culturally and geographically diverse organizational settings. Expert contributors pose and address complex...
Category: Management
Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Critical approaches to...
From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation. It is not only a site of employment where money is made and...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
From the Great Wall to Wall Street: A Cross-Cultural Look...
Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors. In The Geography of Thought Richard...
Category: Country Specific, Leadership, Management
Ethical Intelligence: The Foundation of Leadership: How to Get It...
What goes on in the hearts and minds of men and women as they commit unethical acts that harm others? That’s what John wanted to...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Leadership
Inclusive Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Developing and Executing an...
Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. Inclusive Leadership has been officially shortlisted in the 'Management Futures' category for the...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior: Improving Leadership Effectiveness
Examining the importance of cultural attitudes on human resource practices, this book addresses an important, but often neglected aspect of cross-cultural leadership. First providing an...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Assessment of Cross Cultural Competence in Multinational Organisations
An organization can aptly strengthen its bottom line by tapping into its employees’ various cultural dispensations. An organization’s human resource is very important as it...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective
This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents....
Category: Communication
Successful Global Leadership: Frameworks for Cross-Cultural Managers and Organizations
This book provides practical frameworks for anyone hoping to become a successful global leader, and outlines the challenges that international firms face when managing across...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures (Security and Professional Intelligence Education...
National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Cultural Chemistry: Simple Strategies for Bridging Cultural Gaps
Are you fascinated but frustrated by cultural differences? Have you stood on the edge of cultural gaps and wondered how on earth to bridge them?...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Management
Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course
How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching
The Cross-Cultural Coaching Kaleidoscope
Coaching has emerged from a Western, largely Anglo-American, perspective that may not be appropriate across cultures, given the multi-cultural nature of societies and workplaces today...
Category: Coaching, Psychology
Global Leadership, Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Neuroscience
Does operating on the global stage change the nature of leadership? Is cultural intelligence essential to global leadership success? And how can we use neuroscience...
Category: Leadership
Cross-Cultural Management: Foundations and Future
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics...
Category: Management
Building Cultural Intelligence in Church and Ministry: 10 Ways to...
The church today is gradually becoming a place where many diverse cultures meet to worship God. As we worship together, there are often challenges on...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Doing Business with Ease Overseas: Building Cross-Cultural Relationships That Last
THE QUEST: Cross-Cultural Connections at Home and AbroadIn this global economy and multicultural, multilingual world, bridges are built and crossed. The advice in this book...
Category: Decision Making, Management
A Comprehensive Cross Cultural Model: A study about Lateral Thinking...
The importance of world business has created a demand for managers sophisticated in global management skills and working with people from other countries. Organizational behavior...
Category: Management
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures
If you read nothing else on managing across cultures, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important...
Category: Conflict, Management
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular. “Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in...
Category: Marketing & Sales, Our Reading List
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The...
In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork....
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
Managing Cross-Cultural Communication: Principles and Practice
Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
This fully revised, 8th edition of the market-leading textbook on multicultural counseling comprehensively covers the most recent research and theoretical formulations that introduce and analyze emerging...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Psychology & Counselling
Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
This ground breaking textbook looks at the issue of managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle situation...
Category: Management
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A Model for Effective Personal Relationships
With more than 125,000 copies in print, this model for effective personal relationships in a multicultural and multiethnic world has proven successful for many. On...
Category: Communication
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the...
In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and...
Category: Coaching, Coaching & Facilitating, Leadership
Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
Today’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. But these cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating...
If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy...
Category: Race
The Culture Map
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
Cases in Cross-Cultural Management
Understanding cultural differences and knowing how to work effectively with people from cultures different from one’s own is an important management skill. The following cases...
Category: Management
A World of Difference: Leading in global markets with cultural...
A World of Difference is by diversity and inclusion consultant at Include-Empower, Felicity Menzies, for employees working in global teams; for managers, human resource professionals;...
Category: Leadership
Entering the global engineering market: A correlational study of cultural...
Faced with increasing domestic competition from non-U.S. firms and a growing global marketplace, U.S.-based engineering firms have turned their focus to globalizing their services. Understanding...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Marketing & Sales
Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service
When you go abroad to serve, you’re thinking about the language, the losses,and the excitement. When you return home you’re thinking about your friends and...
Category: Transition
Optimization of Leadership Style: New Approaches to Effective Multicultural Leadership...
Reinhold Kohler shows and explains ten selected and powerful leadership enablers to motivate, develop, and manage international teams, clustered in roles, skills and abilities (ROSKAB)....
Category: Leadership, Teams
Multinational Workplaces: War of Culturally Seasoned Minds: Dynamics of ‘Level...
Multi-cultural workplaces in multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been found to be the providers of best team performances. Most multinational firms focus on strategies to bring...
Category: Management, Teams
Experiences of Immigrant Professors: Challenges, Cross-Cultural Differences, and Lessons for...
Educational institutions all over the world continue to attract the services of foreign-born scholars. In addition to the culture shock that immigrants experience in unfamiliar...
Category: Cross Cultural, Culture Shock, Education, School & Teaching, Transition
Gender, Careers and Inequalities in Medicine and Medical Education: International...
The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focused...
Category: Asian Studies, Education, School & Teaching
The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The book discusses the ways in which...
Category: Communication, Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication
Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment
Throughout the world as in the United States, psychologists are increasingly being called upon to evaluate clients whose backgrounds differ from their own. It has...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
What to Do When it’s Your Turn: (And it’s Always...
Seth says about the book: "It's in full color throughout. It feels more like a high-end magazine than a book, and I think even people...
Category: Learning, Our Reading List
The Five Principles of Global Leadership: How To Manage The...
The type of global leadership described in the five principles of this book is effective in any organization. Of course the context changes, but how...
Category: Leadership
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership....
Category: Inter-Cultural, Latest Books
Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring...
Create meaningful relationships that translate to better business Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from...
Category: Leadership, Management
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and...
Category: Human Resource, Leadership, Management, Our Reading List
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race
Facilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and participants bring emotional experiences and their deeply held values and beliefs into the...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Race
Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations
Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of...
Category: Management
Management Control Systems and Cross-Cultural Research
A fundamental challenge that management faces in the twenty-first century is how to exercise adequate control, i. e. how to guide and direct the behaviour...
Category: Management
Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs: A...
This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Race Relations and Cultural Differences
A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together...
Category: Cross Cultural, Education, School & Teaching, Race
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and...
A bold, brain based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionTo close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally...
Category: Communication, Education, School & Teaching
Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between
Everyone's got a story to tell. If your story involves growing up among different cultures - either moving between them or having them move around...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Our Reading List
The Quintessence of Intercultural Business Communication
Successful business communication is more than simply speaking your client’s language. At the heart of all effective communication lies a fundamental understanding of human behavior....
Category: Inter-Cultural, Intercultural Communication, Management
Effective Intercultural Communication: A Christian Perspective
With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is...
Category: Communication & Branding
Diversity and Leadership
Although leadership theories have evolved to reflect changing social contexts, many remain silent on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. Diversity and Leadership, by Jean...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership
Intercultural Communication: A Peacebuilding Perspective
We live in an increasingly more globalized world, where living and working with people of various cultures is a nearly everyday occurrence. These interactions, combined...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders
Right now, vast amounts of time and money are being invested all round the world in building global brands and organisations. But where are the...
Category: Leadership, Transition
Communication Beyond Boundaries
The way one communicates across ethnicities and cultures can vary, leading to miscommunication and misinterpretation. In a diverse setting, communication is far more complicated than...
Category: Communication
How to Use Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence...
The focus of this book is to show how Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) are critical factors used to help...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Religion & Spirituality
Understanding and Managing Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises
Understanding and Managing Diversity uses applications to clarify the complexity of a diverse workforce, and explains how it can be used as an organizational asset. This...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
And the Mountains Echoed
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global...
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life....
Category: Management, Transition
Global Leadership Practices: A Cross-Cultural Management Perspective
An advanced level edited text that covers key theories of cross-cultural management and helps develop practical solutions to deal with difference in organizations. Focuses on...
Category: Leadership, Management
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
Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations
Organizations need not sacrifice workplace diversity in the quest for positive global reputation and profit. On the contrary, attention to social identity 'difference' in the...
Category: Management
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing”—the art of switching leadership...
Category: Cross Cultural, Latest Books
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
Diversity in the Classroom: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher...
This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given...
Category: Diversity
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
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
