Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition Quotes

“responses to our deductive assessments of intercultural competence and transcultural leadership, corporate effectiveness and sustainability, cultural aspects of personality and team development, and innovation.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“With the continuing growth and pervasion of the Internet, we have continued to add many other cultural measurement instruments and have developed associated ancillary databases and apps to disclose them.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“THIS BOOK is about cultural differences and how they affect the process of doing business and managing.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“The book will also be of value to students of business and management to help prepare them for the new world of business, which is so different from only a few years ago.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“The latter more than ever need to interact with a diverse workforce, as well as with a diverse customer and supplier base, and therefore require a certain level of cultural competence.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“The cultural databases that underpin this book have been extended to include not only more cases and more country data from more respondents but also a whole wealth of cultural measurements of competences, dilemmas and their reconciliations, servant leadership across cultures, innovation paradigms across cultures, and multicultural and remote team effectiveness.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“new ways of working”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“Studies of cultures are now further clouded by the consequences of migrations, immigration and acculturation, and cultural differences across generations, along with new players such as India and South America as well as China in the center stage. This”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“We introduced the fourth R, for Realization, in this edition, so that culture is ever more explicitly linked to the bottom line.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“The focus and need was shifting from simply understanding cultural differences and how to prevent embarrassments and resolve communication issues to how to leverage difference for competitive advantage, in a world where even local business may involve leading a diverse workforce.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“the world of business continued to move ever rapidly to the global village, accelerated by changing political, social, and economic forces enabled by air travel and communications technology.”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

“Rs of Recognition, Respect, and Reconciliation”
― Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business