Contents
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 0: About this book
Chapter 1: Home and away
1.1 Core competences
1.2 Surfacing expectations
1.3 Understanding your own cultures
1.4 Profiling your own cultures
1.5 Best practice: Focused on goals, flexible on approaches
Chapter 2: Difference and common ground
2.1 Competing values?
2.2 Power in national cultures and organisational cultures
2.3 Time in national cultures and organisational cultures
2.4 Communication in national cultures and organisational cultures
2.5 Individualism and group-orientation in national cultures
and organisational cultures
2.6 Best practice: Building a common culture
Chapter 3: Individuals and groups
3.1 Stereotypes
3.2 Personality and behaviour – at work and at home
3.3 Personality
3.4 Connecting personality and culture
3.5 Best practice: Get to know your team
3.6 Best practice: The role of leadership
Chapter 4: Direction
4.1 The relationship between setting direction and uncertainty
4.2 Direction and vision
4.3 Communicating direction: Big picture or detail? Push or pull?
4.4 Long and short-term orientation
4.5 Past, present and future
4.6 Best practice: Top-down or bottom-up or something else?
Chapter 5: Organisation and change
5.1 Attitudes towards change
5.2 Changing organisational structure
5.3 Working in international projects as a driver of organisational change
5.4 Working without a leader as a feature of organisational change
5.5 Best practice: The four Ps