Access to Asia
Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships
Sharon Schweitzer, Liz Alexander
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Access to Asia
Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships
Sharon Schweitzer, Liz Alexander
About This Book
Create meaningful relationships that translate to better business
Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from Toronto to Taipei, Baltimore to Bangalore, or San Francisco to Shanghai. Drawing from her extensive experience and global connections, author Sharon Schweitzer suggests that irrespective of their industry, everyone is essentially in the relationship business. Within Asia, building trust and inspiring respect are vital steps in developing business relationships that transcend basic contractual obligations. Readers will find in-the-trenches advice and stories from 80 regional experts in 10 countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Korea.
- Discover the unique eight-question framework that provides rich interview material and insight from respected cultural experts
- Track cultural progress over time and highlight areas in need of improvement with the Self-Awareness Profile
- Learn the little-known facts, reports, and resources that help establish and strengthen Asian business relationships
Effective cross-cultural communication is mandatory for today's successful global business leaders. For companies and individuals looking to engage more successfully with their counterparts in Asia, Access to Asia showcases the critical people skills that drive global business success.
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Chapter 1
A Question of Culture
Culture
āCulture is the accumulation of life experiences spanning generations.āSheida Hodge, Global Smarts2
- Relationship with natureāespecially the need for control
- Social structureāwhether focused mostly on individuals or groups
- Appropriate goalsābeing or doing
- Timeāpast (traditions), present (current circumstances), or future (desires/goals)
- Basis of human natureāgood or evil
- Conception of spaceāpublic or private
Pattern Interrupt
ā(M)any Japanese executives are reserved, polite, quiet, and rarely display emotion. Somewhere there is probably a loud, boisterous, gesticulating Japanese manager who is as emotional and imperious as any prima donna. Just because we haven't met him (or her) doesn't mean that no such person exists.āTerri...