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Access to Asia
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Access to Asia

Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships

Wiley, 2015 plus...


Editorial Rating

7

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  • Applicable

Recommendation

International etiquette consultant Sharon Schweitzer – writing with award-winning author Liz Alexander – provides simple, straightforward advice about cultural complexities and differences across major Asian markets. This clear, jargon-free and practical book helps you avoid giving inadvertent offense. Schweitzer frames her lessons around eight basic considerations. Her detailed information about social expectations includes charts, timelines and quizzes. She also explains what to do when negotiations or transactions hit rough spots. And she teaches, just as Mom did, that good manners matter everywhere. getAbstract recommends this easy-to-read guide to entrepreneurs, managers, negotiators, and anyone working with Asians or in Asia.

Take-Aways

  • You can liken culture to a peach: Its skin represents visible “cultural manifestations”; the fruit’s flesh stands for cultural norms, and the pit symbolizes the underlying assumptions that shape the culture.
  • Ask eight diagnostic questions to analyze a culture. The answers will vary from nation to nation. Use these questions to compare your home culture to others.
  • The queries concern group versus individual decision-making, the weight of rules and relationships, the degree of formality, work versus personal life, and similar issues.

About the Authors

Etiquette consultant Sharon Schweitzer, advises Global 2000 and Fortune 50 companies. The author of 15 books, Liz Alexander, co-founded the Leading Thought consultancy.