Bridging Cultural Barriers

Bridging Cultural Barriers

Author: Peter M. Haller

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9783030171322

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This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As such, it helps readers identify potential and real conflicts, and to take appropriate action so as to build successful relationships. The book draws on the authors’ combined experience from international line management and international projects, as well as teaching seminars and coaching clientele from around the globe. It offers an essential resource for anyone involved in transnational business and cross-border relationships.


Bridging Cultural Barriers

Bridging Cultural Barriers

Author: Peter M. Haller

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3030171302

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This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As such, it helps readers identify potential and real conflicts, and to take appropriate action so as to build successful relationships. The book draws on the authors’ combined experience from international line management and international projects, as well as teaching seminars and coaching clientele from around the globe. It offers an essential resource for anyone involved in transnational business and cross-border relationships.


Bridge the Culture Gaps

Bridge the Culture Gaps

Author: Robert Gibson

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1529383021

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The highly practical self-help guide to optimize the performance of individuals working in an intercultural environment. Readers will learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations and how to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. Addressing the unique challenges of influencing across cultures and managing international projects, this is an indispensable toolkit for a key competence in business. Bridge The Culture Gaps provides readers with a framework for developing key skills essential for effective global collaboration in the VUCA world. These include reflecting on experience, understanding the nature and impact of culture and the importance of diversity for business success. Readers learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations, and to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. It addresses the challenges of leading diverse teams, influencing across cultures and managing international transformation projects, as well as making international assignments successful.


Bridging the Culture Gap

Bridging the Culture Gap

Author: Penny Carté

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0749452749

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Based on the real-life business experiences of the authors' international clients, this updated book addresses such issues as cross-cultural presentations, overseas negotiations, and communicating across language barriers.


Danger and Opportunity

Danger and Opportunity

Author: Lionel Laroche

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1135119384

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The Chinese characters for "danger" and "opportunity" form the word "crisis". Ancient Chinese wisdom sees an opportunity in danger. While cultural diversity brings challenges to the workplace, how do we turn these challenges into opportunities? Drawing on their extensive experience working with multicultural and multinational organizations, Lionel Laroche and Caroline Yang provide an in-depth analysis of cross-cultural dynamics in the workplace and offer practical suggestions at both the individual and organizational levels. The book analyzes cross-cultural challenges in six areas: the relative importance of technical and soft skills; cross-cultural communication; cross-cultural feedback; hierarchy; individualism; and risk tolerance. It then provides a solutions framework that encompasses people, systems and environment to bridge the issues that arise from cultural differences. The analysis and solutions are applied in four business contexts: managing a multicultural workforce; competing in the global talent market; collaborating with joint venture partners; and working with offshore resources. If you work with colleagues, managers, employees and customers from diverse cultures, if you are with an organization that has a multicultural workforce and/or global operations, or if your organization collaborates with joint venture partners or offshore resources from different cultures, then Danger and Opportunity: Bridging Cultural Diversity for Competitive Advantage is the book for you.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker

Author: Thomas A. Lisk Ph.D.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1440636567

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Get the gift of gab. In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how to prosper in this highly competitive and lucrative field. • Expert author in a rapidly growing field • Contains inside tips on every aspect of speaking professionally • Clear and practical information about how to set up a professional speaker’s business and promote it • Suggestions for extra goods and services for additional revenue • Features event planning and organizing strategies and instructive anecdotes from the field


Bridging Cultural Conflicts

Bridging Cultural Conflicts

Author: Michelle LeBaron

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2003-04-21

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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"In our global society, challenging conflicts abound in personal, business, government, and international settings. Many of these conflicts are complicated by layers of miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and completely different ways of looking at the world. These conflicts cannot be solved by goodwill or sincere intentions alone. In our multicultural world, we need new tools to address gaps in communication and understanding and the conflicts that flow from them. This book answers this need in groundbreaking ways that cut through complexity, replacing confusion with clarity." - book jacket.


Bridging the Gaps in Business Between the West and China: From Cultural Barriers to Cultural Understanding

Bridging the Gaps in Business Between the West and China: From Cultural Barriers to Cultural Understanding

Author: Michaela Furdzova

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This paper analyzes and compares the business cultures of China and the West, conducting its primary data analysis by collecting and processing primary data through interviews. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of cross-cultural knowledge and cultural understanding during business negotiations. By incorporating Hofstede0́9s cultural dimensions theory, this research argues that various aspects of culture have a significant impact on various forms of personal and business interactions between individuals. Using case studies, this analysis illustrates this principle: failure to understand cultural differences and norms mark the difference between a successful negotiation versus a project that fails. The study will show significant differences in Western and Chinese business cultures and contain recommendations that promote mutual understanding and acceptance.