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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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For Business Poeple and Managers,
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This review is from: Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (Hardcover)
This is a shorter, and more condensed version of the authors' earlier book 'Building Cross Cultural Competence'. In this book, the authors' target managers and business people who are looking to understand cultural differences and how to deal with them in a variety of circumstances and situations. Each chapter begins with am introduction to one of the dimensions, a discussion of how the differences manifest themselves and concludes with 'tips' on how to deal, and how to do business, with the different culture explored in that chapter.
The authors use the same six dimensions of culture introduced in their earlier work (universalism vs. particularism; individualism vs communitarism; specificity vs. diffusion; achieved status vs. ascribed status; inner direction vs. outer direction; and sequential time vs. synchronous time), but they present these dimensions in a much more accessible and simple manner with more emphasis on what each dimension actually means for business people and how it affects business-related situations. This book has become the reference for business people and managers in the area of culture. Simple and very well written without losing credibility; this is a book that will enlighten and guide any manager in dealing with people from other cultures. While in some ways it is a 'western-centric' book (targeted to Western - especially US - managers), it remains very useful for managers from other cultures since the authors have attempted to keep the examples and discussion culturally neutral.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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A Work of Genius,
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This review is from: Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (Hardcover)
Do you travel beyond your border? For work? For pleasure? This book will keep you from making some terrible mistakes communicating and understanding other foreign nationals.For example, when do you respect rules over relationships? In Germany rules rule, in South Korea, relationships overshadow the law. Fascinating reading, incredible insights - you won't be disappointed in the usefulness of this work.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A very informative and insightful book,
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This review is from: Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (Hardcover)
Having read a number of books on intercultural management, I can only say that in my opinion, "Riding the Waves of Culture" is by far the best book on this subject. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner present the results of their research on cultural differences in a most engaging way. Their book is a quick read that is full of wonderful anecdotes about cross-cultural business dilemmas. The stories are presented in a way that demonstrates great awareness of and respect for very diverse approaches to business. The authors also offer a methodology for reconciling value differences that incorporates the best of both worlds.
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