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Going International: How to Make Friends and Deal Effectively in the Global Marketplace
Going International How to Make Friends and Deal Effectively in the Global Marketplace Author:Lennie Copeland, Lewis Griggs While electronic communication and the internet are making our world smaller, there will always be cultural differences that make doing business and moving internationally a challenge. This book gives a broad range of tips about living and working in a new environment and is written to assist in making that transition. — The purpose of this book ... more »is to instruct American business people in the niceties of dealing with their counterparts in foreign lands. The authors present a manual of tactics that will enhance the possibility of successful dealings and negotiations. In addition to discussing marketing, negotiating, communicating, and the like, they offer helpful advice on business and social etiquette, managing personal and family life, and returning to the States. The kind of person who works best among people of other cultures is the person who is earnest and willing to learn, and who does not try to impose the American way of doing things. Some partisanship is occasionally discernible, but on the whole the authors achieve their purpose.« less