Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans who get straight to the point ( your presentation was simply awful ) Latin Americans and Asians who are steeped in hierarchy Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd,the result can be, well, sometimes interesting, even funny, but often disastrous.Even with English as a global language, it's easy to fall into cultural traps that endanger careers and sink deals when, say, a Brazilian manager tries to fathom how his Chinese suppliers really get things done, or an American team leader tries to get a handle on the intra-team dynamics between his Russian and Indian team members.In The Culture Map , Erin Meyer provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business. She combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice for succeeding in a global world.
An American based in France, ERIN MEYER is a professor at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading international business schools. She is program director for INSEAD’s Managing Global Virtual Teams and Management Skills for International Business executive education programs. She has written for the Harvard Business Review, Singapore Business Times, and Forbes.com. In 2013 Erin was s...
- 拆解沟通、评估等八大跨文化维度差异
- 提供跨国协作中化解误解的实用策略
- 破除刻板印象，建立全球协作思维
- 跨国企业员工及外派管理者
- 需频繁进行跨文化沟通的职场人
- 对国际商务与社会学感兴趣的读者
- 结合书中坐标图理解各国文化定位
- 留意文化倾向与个人性格的区别
- 避免生搬硬套，保持真诚交流心态
- 案例丰富易读，是极佳的跨文化工具书
- 有效消除因文化背景不同产生的误解
- 有助于打破自我中心，提升协作效率
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "the skills involved in being an effective communicator vary dramatically from one culture to another. In the United States and other Anglo-Saxon cultures, people are trained (mostly subconsciously) to communicate as literally and explicitly as possible. Good communication is all about clarity and ex"
- "low-context communication: People from such cultures are conditioned from childhood to assume a low level of shared context-that is, few shared reference points and comparatively little implicit knowledge linking speaker and listener My third-grade teacher, "Say what you mean and mean what you say. "
- "French, a much higher-context language than English. For one thing, there are seven times more words in English than in French (500,000 versus 70,000), which suggests that French relies on contextual clues to resolve semantic ambiguities to a greater extent than English. Many words in French have mu"
- ""In the Netherlands, if you don't say it straight, we don't think you are trustworthy." If you're from a low-context culture, you may perceive a high-context communicator as secretive, lacking transparency, or unable to communicate effectively. On the other hand, if you're from a high-context cultur"
- "One interesting quirk is that in high-context cultures, the more educated and sophisticated you are, the greater your ability to both speak and listen with an understanding of implicit, layered messages. By contrast, in low-context cultures, the most educated and sophisticated business people are th"
- "The Chinese manager learns never to criticize a colleague openly or in front of others, while the Dutch manager learns always to be honest and to give the message straight. Americans are trained to wrap positive messages around negative ones, while the French are trained to criticize passionately an"
- "One rule for working with cultures that are more direct than yours on the evaluation scale: don't try to do it like them. Even in the countries furthest to the direct side of the evaluation scale, it is still quite possible to be too direct. If you don't understand the subtle rules that separate wha"
- ""In the Netherlands, we give feedback very directly, but we arealways polite."... a Dutch person’s feedback can indeed be both brutally honest yet delightfully polite but only if the recipient is Dutch. If you happen to come fromone of the 195 or so societies in the world that like their negative fe"