When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures

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Nicholas Brealey, 2000 - 462 Seiten
Richard D. Lewis, an expert on cross-cultural and language training who has tutored clients from Swedish corporate executives to the Japanese Imperial Family, discusses the need to consider cross-cultural differences in managing any company in today's global world. He suggests a broad model you can use to characterize different national characteristics as linear-active, multi-active, and reactive. These traits shape attitudes toward time, leadership, team building, and affect a range of organizational behaviors. Lewis includes brief national profiles you can refer to when doing business away from home. This in-depth book covers common patterns in different cultures, and offers many examples of how different groups act under different situations. getAbstract recommends this book to top executives, managers and anyone who works in a multicultural business environment, as well as to general readers with a yen for informed people watching.

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Richard D Lewis is chairman of Richard Lewis Communications, an international institute of crosscultural and language training with offices in over 30 countries. He founded the quarterly magazine Cross Culture in 1989 and he lectures across the world to 'blue chip' companies and government ministries. One of Britain's foremost linguists, he speaks 10 European and 2 Asiatic languages and spent 5 years in Japan where he was tutor to Empress Michiko and other members of the Japanese Imperial Family.

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