This book provides the reader with a diagrammatic introduction to cross-cultural communication across 28 different nationalities.

Cross Cultural Communication: A Visual Approach

Business & Money

Lewis, Richard D.

Economics

UNKNO

How national culture impacts organizational culture―and business success Using extensive case studies of successful global corporations, this book explores the impact of national culture on the corporate strategy and its execution, and through this ultimately business success―or failure. It does not argue that different cultures lead to different business results, but that all cultures impact organizations in ways both positive and negative, depending on the business cycle, the particular business, and the particular strategies being pursued. Depending on all of these factors, cultural dynamics can either enable or derail performance. But recognizing those cultural factors is difficult for business leaders; like everyone else, they too can be blind to the culture of which they are a part. The book offers managers and leaders eight recommendations for recognizing those cultural factors that negatively impact performance, as well as those that can be harnessed to encourage superior performance. With real case studies from companies in Asia, Europe, and the United States, this book offers a truly global approach to organizational culture. <ul>
<li>Offers a fresh approach to the effects of national culture on organizational culture that is applicable to any country in any region</li> <li>Based on case studies of such companies as Toyota, Samsung, General Motors, Nokia, Walmart, Kone and British Leyland</li> <li>It describes the origins and nature of the most common corporate crisis and how culture impacts the response to such a crisis</li> <li>Ideal for managers, business leaders, and board members, as well as business school students</li> </ul>
A welcome response to the flat-Earth fad that argues we're all alike, this book offers a nuanced and practical view of cultural differentiators and how they can enable or derail business performance.

Fish Can't See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy

Hammerich, Kai

Management & Leadership

wiley

"An invaluable tool to help in planning practical strategies to work successfully across increasingly diverse business cultures. Riveting and thoroughly researched." - Daily Telegraph A major new edition of the classic work that revolutionized the way business is conducted across cultures and around the globe. The fourth edition provides leaders and managers with practical strategies to embrace differences and successfully work across diverse business cultures. Capturing the rising influence and the seismic changes throughout many regions of the world, cross-cultural expert and international businessman Richard Lewis has significantly broadened the scope of his seminal work on global business and communication. Thoroughly updated to include the latest political events and cultural changes, as well as covering nine new countries to complete Europe, broadening the scope of the book. Building on his LMR model, Lewis gives leaders and managers practical strategies to embrace differences and work successfully across increasingly diverse business cultures.

When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures 4th Edition

Business Culture

John Murray Business Academic

Richard Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, with penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organizations, and view their role of leaders.

When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures

When Cultures Collide

International

Aiming his work at the general lay reader, Lewis (the head of a cross- cultural and language training institute) advances a theory on the origins and intractability of cultural differences and proposes a model for identifying the characteristics of different national cultures. The majority of the work is devoted to detailing what he thinks are the defining characteristics of different cultures, with a scale that labels cultures as existing along a tripartite axis of linear-active, multi-active, and reactive categories. An epilogue written in the wake of the September 11th attacks looks at cultural clashes between the U.S. and the world of Islam. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century

Reference

The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working and communicating across cultures, and explains how your culture and language affect the ways in which you think and respond. This revised and expanded edition in paperback of Richard Lewis's book provides an ever more global and practical guide not just to understanding but also managing in different business cultures. New chapters on more than a dozen countries - from Iraq, Israel and Pakistan to Serbia, Columbia and Venezuela - vastly broaden the range.

When Cultures Collide, 3rd Edition: Leading Across Cultures

Nicholas Brealey Publishing

International teams are rapidly becoming the central operating mode for global enterprises. They are often agile and perceptive, know local markets better than HQ does, lead innovation and exploratory ventures, and are more culturally aware than their parent company. But how much autonomy should they be allowed? How can we get things done with colleagues who have different worldviews? How can we strike a balance between core values and the necessary diversity - and is diversity within the team a strength or a hindrance? What is the role of the team leader in all of this? How do you establish team trust? How important is team humor? Who decides the team's ethics? What misunderstandings can arise in a virtual team, lacking face-to-face contact? In answering these and other questions, Richard D. Lewis draws on 30 years experience mediating with hundreds of international teams in two dozen countries. Generously illustrated with explanatory diagrams, When Teams Collide analyses profiles of 24 different nationalities and suggests how they should be led for best results. Commenting on vital considerations of leadership, team trust, ethics and humor, the author also evaluates the relationship between teams and HQ. Applying the cultural concepts in the bestselling When Cultures Collide specifically to team leadership, this is a wide-ranging and compelling account of how to handle what is a difficult and sensitive task.

When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team Successfully

Nicholas Brealey

Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. Pursuing a "Lone Wolf" policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state in 1945 to one of the most developed countries in the world. The exponential rise of Nokia from tire and timbers to leading the world's telecommunication industry is indicative of the Finns and their characteristic business style. These remarkable people speak a language unique in its origins and have kept their cultural identity intact despite the influences of powerful neighbors, Sweden and Russia. Uniquely qualified to write about Finalnd, best-selling author Richard Lewis traces the fascinating Finnish origins, as well as her history, geography, values and culture. His extensive experience with Finnish business provides him with keen insight on leadership style, negotiation strategies and the uniquely Finnish suomi-kuva (Finland image). And Lewis shines when describing Finnish humor, complete with hilarious jokes and stories. Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf shows a nation and a writer at their best.

Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Will the tidal wave of globalization homogenize the world? Or will culture, which drives human behavior, maintain its influence?In The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the Twenty-first Century, Richard D. Lewis explores these questions and examines the forces that keep us tied to our cultural heritage. According to Lewis, throughout history and across the globe, we all have worn cultural spectacles, glasses tinted with our own cultural biases. These glasses ensure that our individual cultural traits will always be a part of us, as they are a part of the very way in which we see the world.As he examines the world after 9/11, with focus on the rise of Islam and the current state of the West, Lewis disproves the theory of inevitable globalization and identifies the forces that ensure that cultural perspective will always play a role in our lives.Richard Lewis's approach has been an absolutely marvelous way to get my students to appreciate how and why cultures are different, and how to benefit from this. It is great to see him now turn his practical wisdom to the future in such a spellbinding, readable and timely new book. A real imperative for understanding cultural trends! -Ulla Ladau-Harjulin, Principal Lecturer FRSA, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland A very revealing and sometimes shocking vision of confrontation and/or cooperation of world cultures in the twenty-first century. A must-read in MBA programs and to be highly recommended to everyone involved with the study or practice of cross-cultural interaction and management. -Peter N. Shikhirev, PhD, Director, Centre for Social and Psychological Studies, Graduate School of International Business, Academy of National Economy by the Government of Russia Richard Lewis has developed a rich and powerful tool that serves to disseminate cultural complexities, which allows for leveraging opportunities and minimizing threats. Such issues would be paramount in any international business situation. A global mindset is imperative for us all. -Marta Szabo White, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, J. Mack Robinson School of Business, Georgia State University [The] thesis of the book is the argument linking cultural dimensions of nations to national competitive advantage. Richard Lewis develops a simple yet convincing model for understanding the historical evolution of the major national cultures and their juxtaposition to the rest of the world to day. The value of [The Cultural Imperative] is its new way of weaving a new explanation for considering the role of national cultures, language development, national aspirations and history in understanding the sources of future conflicts relating to global economic development. -Arie Y. Lewin, Professor, Director Center for International Business Education and Research, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Richard Lewis' extensive experience and knowledge of many cultures provides rich anecdotes coupled with interesting insights and opinions. The book stimulates personal reflection on the continuing importance of culture in a globalizing economy. -Susan Schneider, Chaired Professor of Human Resource Management, HEC University of Geneva ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Genetic, Economic, and Cultural Determinism1 From 2,000,000 B.C. to A.D 2000: The Roots and Routes of Culture2 Culture and Climate3 Culture and Religion4 Cross-Century Worldviews5 Cultural Spectacles6 Cultural Black Holes7 Cognitive Processes8 The Pacific Rim: The Fourth Cultural Ecology9 The China Phenomenon10 Americanization versus Asianization11 Culture and Globalization12 Empires- Past, Present, and FutureConclusionEpilogueAppendix A: Cultural Categorization CharacteristicsAppendix B: Leadership TestAppendix C: National TraitsAppendix D: National Communication StyleGlossaryBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex

Cultural Imperative: Global Teams in the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

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