Cultural Intelligence, David C. Thomas
Cultural Intelligence, David C. Thomas
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Cultural Intelligence
Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village

Author: David C. Thomas, Kerr C. Inkson

Narrator: Dave Clark

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2017

Synopsis

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 about everyone. But it's impossible to learn the customs and traits of every single culture. David Thomas and Kerr Inkson present a universal set of techniques and people skills that will allow you to adapt quickly to, and thrive in, any cultural environment. You'll learn to discard your own culturally based assumptions and pay careful attention, in a mindful and creative way, to cues in cross-cultural situations. The authors show how to apply cultural intelligence in a series of specific situations: making decisions; communicating, negotiating, and resolving conflicts; leading and motivating others; and designing, managing, and contributing to multicultural groups and teams. This extensively revised third edition has been updated with new stories showing cultural intelligence in action. Thomas and Inkson have broadened the focus beyond business to include organizations of all kinds—nonprofits, governments, educational institutions, and more. And they include a reliable and valid measure of cultural intelligence based on a decade of research by an international team of scholars.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on June 24, 2017

Compilation of various case studies to help the reader consider various differences found in many cultures and how that affects the work place and business expectations. Why I started this book: Short and I was looking for tricks and techniques to help my own world adventures. Why I finished it: While......more

Goodreads review by Nicola on August 24, 2018

Difficult to rate; I think the quality of the experience and takeaways depends a lot on expectations. This book might be better titled "Becoming Culturally Intelligent," or "Improving Your Cultural Intelligence;" ie, the focus is on developing a framework so that you can get the most out of cross-cu......more

Goodreads review by Julianne on October 28, 2017

This book explains the concept of cultural intelligence and why it's important, demonstrating the points with numerous situations/examples. I read this book while studying for the Managerial Communications CLEP. While this book is helpful toward that goal, it would be more useful if I currently had......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on January 18, 2018

Interesting book, some good thoughts regarding the term cultural intelligence, some good examples. Definitely got me thinking, but not really an eye opener.......more

Goodreads review by Allen on August 13, 2015

This volume is surprisingly accessible, introducing core concepts related to how to perform and adapt within any variety of cross-cultural situations. I appreciate that the book does not get bogged down in organizational research and instead provides anecdotal vignettes (rather than extended case st......more

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