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nikread84's review against another edition
5.0
Great book for any traveler or anyone that works with people outside the US. In all honesty, it’s probably a good book for anyone that gets frustrated with other people...it does a great job of explaining how different people see time, communication, and relationships.
The audiobook gets minus 0.5 stars because some of the accents (Hispanic/Mexican for example) were terrible.
The audiobook gets minus 0.5 stars because some of the accents (Hispanic/Mexican for example) were terrible.
fred3u's review against another edition
4.0
It was a good book and interesting. I would've maybe wanted a little more different countries in the examples though like African countries were barely mentioned, but overall pretty well talked about a lot of countries.
amelia_lim's review against another edition
3.0
An overview of culture differences in different spectrum, not in depth, but good enough to raise awareness:
- Low context (explicit) vs High context (implicit) communication
- Direct vs Indirect negative feedback
- Principle vs Application first persuading method. And a completely different one which is holistic way of viewing problem.
- Egalitarian vs Hierarchy leadership
- Consensual vs Top-down decision making
- Task-based vs Relationship-based trusting
- Confrontational vs Harmony
- Linear-time vs Flexible-time scheduling.
The categorization is based more on author's personal experiences, observations, the book contains a lot of anecdotes. Author sometimes mentioned some scientific researches, however it bugged me abit that there's no references to those researches, maybe it's just an audiobook problem?
- Low context (explicit) vs High context (implicit) communication
- Direct vs Indirect negative feedback
- Principle vs Application first persuading method. And a completely different one which is holistic way of viewing problem.
- Egalitarian vs Hierarchy leadership
- Consensual vs Top-down decision making
- Task-based vs Relationship-based trusting
- Confrontational vs Harmony
- Linear-time vs Flexible-time scheduling.
The categorization is based more on author's personal experiences, observations, the book contains a lot of anecdotes. Author sometimes mentioned some scientific researches, however it bugged me abit that there's no references to those researches, maybe it's just an audiobook problem?
fierymoon's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
my uni prof recommended this book during one of our lectures and yeah, im glad i read it pretty much, bc i've had my clashes with people, outside of my culture, and reading this was pretty much an eye opener