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Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever You Are

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Overview

Avoid costly mistakes and faux pas when traveling abroad with this course that helps anyone-businesspersons, tourists, and more-navigate other cultures.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Culture Matters
  • 02: Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
  • 03: Identity-Individualist versus Collectivist
  • 04: Authority-Low versus High Power Distance
  • 05: Risk-Low versus High Uncertainty Avoidance
  • 06: Achievement-Cooperative versus Competitive
  • 07: Time-Punctuality versus Relationships
  • 08: Communication-Direct versus Indirect
  • 09: Lifestyle-Being versus Doing
  • 10: Rules-Particularist versus Universalist
  • 11: Expressiveness-Neutral versus Affective
  • 12: Social Norms-Tight versus Loose
  • 13: Roots of Cultural Differences
  • 14: Anglo Cultures
  • 15: Nordic European Cultures
  • 16: Germanic Cultures
  • 17: Eastern European/Central Asian Cultures
  • 18: Latin European Cultures
  • 19: Latin American Cultures
  • 20: Confucian Asian Cultures
  • 21: South Asian Cultures
  • 22: Sub-Saharan African Cultures
  • 23: Arab Cultures
  • 24: Cultural Intelligence for Life

Taught by

David Livermore

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