Books
By Jenna Pick
A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick
The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community.
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When Cultures Collide
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.
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Fish Can't See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy
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.
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The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century
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
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Close Encounters of A Cultural Kind: Lessons for business, negotiation and friendship
Richard Lewis - world famous lecturer on intercultural issues and best-selling author of WHEN CULTURES COLLIDE - has collected 50 unique, critical cross-cultural incidents during his encounters in 135 countries around the globe. Some of these anecdotes are humorous, some are poignant, some are mysterious - all are insightful snapshots of the complex tapestry of cross-cultural business.
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The Culture Map
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
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Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business
There’s so much more to the role of culture in business than etiquette and local customs. Recognizing its importance―and providing a clear-eyed look at how it works in real-life scenarios―is why Riding the Waves of Culture became essential reading when it was first published in 1997.
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Riding the Waves of Innovation: Harness the Power of Global Culture to Drive Creativity and Growth
Companies that successfully harness employees’ creativity and convert it to business innovation are leading the charge today. While this isn’t a brand-new concept, no one has explained how connections between people initially remote from each other generate innovation—until now. Riding the Waves of Innovation fills the void.
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Business Across Cultures
Business Across Cultures is the keystone book in the Culture for Business series. It provides an overview of all subjects tackled in the other books of the series. Its particular aim is to provide executives with a cross-cultural perspective on how companies meet the diverse needs of customers, investors and employees; to introduce the main ideas in business in a multicultural context; and to show how they all fit together.
LinkBy Geert Hofstede
Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectives
Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account of the evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede
Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations
Geert Hofstede has completely rewritten, revised and updated Culture′s Consequences for the twenty-first century, he has broadened the book′s cross-disciplinary appeal, expanded the coverage of countries examined from 40 to more than 50, reformulated his arguments and a large amount of new literature has been included. The book is structured around five major dimensions: power distance; uncertainty avoidance; individualism versus collectivism; masculinity versus femininity; and long term versus short-term orientation.
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The Hidden Dimension
People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language, introduced the science of proxemics to demonstrate how man's use of space can affect personal and business reltions, cross-cultural interactions, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.
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Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices
A joyous short story collection by and about Muslims, edited by New York Times bestselling authors Aisha Saeed and William C. Morris Award finalist S.K. Ali, Once Upon an Eid showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid!
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Catch of the day
All was going great, as both the siblings had chosen two different water guns for the upcoming Holi. What could possibly go wrong? On a regular day of school, one elder sibling was greatly concerned about the younger one getting up and getting ready on time. Or was she?
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Mothers lap in the UAE
Noora is an Emirati girl who discovers the world of books on her mother’s lap, , Mother’s Lap in the UAE is a story based on a reading center established in Al Ain, a city in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Grèce Chami-Sather, author of this book, was a professor and educational psychologist at the UAE University. She attempted to promote the importance of mothers reading to their own children and to bring awareness to the importance of scaffolding children using the zone of proximal development, by reading for young children.
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