Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business

by David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576752569
• ISBN13: 9781576752562
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

great book

Cross cultural communication is extremely important in todays globally diverse corporations! This book gives great insight into peoples cultural lenses.

Well written book.

This is a well-written book, which provides a generalist approach to dealing with cross-cultural issues with many excellent examples. The core idea of the book is based on the Hofstede model. One of the central criticisms of this model has been that nation state and culture are always presumed to be the same. Local culture does not follow political boundaries. The authors seem to be unable to avoid this trap. Cultural Intelligence gives good insights on how to notice "Cultural Cruise-Control" and change own way of thinking. Providing some practical tools would have added to the value of this book, but this is a good book for international managers and HR personnel involved in multicultural business.

Cultural Intelligence

Author presented interesting views and provide readers clear concept of issues in working with people of cultural diversity.

A thorough and very useful guide

This is a detailed survival manual for those who are new to working across cultures. Its aim is to help such people to raise their 'cultural intelligence' - their understanding of cultural diffrences and their impact and their skill with tools to recognize and overcome misunderstanding and failures of communication based on differing cultural expectations. While it is pitched for those who have little or no cross-cultural experience, it contains material which will also be useful to those with substantial experience. An appendix lists useful sources of specific country information.

Outdoes all the rest

I have read countless books regarding inter-cultural communications and competence but I have to say that this is eons ahead of all others (including some by the same title). The strongest argument that the authors make here is that there are no patronising sets of rules to follow in different cultures, that one can, using an effective method and basic awareness, communicate across any culture successfully and without the aid of guidebooks and the like. In essence, this is the only book anyone will ever need on this subject...nice work!