Authors Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner offer a guide for international organizations and managers seeking to understand the impact cultural differences can have in a business setting.
“Riding the Waves of Culture” uses case studies, research findings and examples to show how different cultures respond differently to similar situations, and how organizations can manage cultural differences to create a positive outcome.
The book explains how managers have mediated difficult situations while conducting business in different countries.
The authors have studied the effects of cultural differences in a business setting, and emphasize that a person must first understand his or her own culture in order to understand cultural diversity.
Cultural differences are explored through three aspects: The relationships we have with people, the attitude we have toward time, and the relationship we have with our environment.
The authors explain how the approach to those three relationships differs among cultures, and how it plays a role in the structure of an organization and in conducting business across cultures.
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Riding the Waves of Culture’
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Riding the Waves of Culture’
What We Are Reading Today: Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties
- On the subject of his birth, he writes: “I wriggled out of my mother’s womb in Dunoon, a fishing village on the River Clyde an hour from Glasgow, just as the Second World War was ending”
Author: Michael Findlay
If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during the New York art scene in the 1960s and 1970s, Michael Findlay’s memoir, “Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties,” provides a front-row seat on the happenings of the time.
Findlay, a high school drop-out who grew up in Scotland, found himself in the company of arguably one of the most famous — or infamous — American artists at the time, Andy Warhol. They became friends. Findlay also rubbed shoulders with some of the most influential artists and art collectors of that era and became one of the most seasoned art dealers, acquiring pieces from some of the most sought-after artists. How did this happen? Why did it happen?
In this book, he shows and doesn’t just tell.
On the subject of his birth, he writes: “I wriggled out of my mother’s womb in Dunoon, a fishing village on the River Clyde an hour from Glasgow, just as the Second World War was ending.”
Each of the pages is full of colorful antedates that are just as animated and articulate.
Fans of his work might know him from his previous books, “The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty,” as well as his other book, “Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art.”
As one of the first art gallery directors in trendy SoHo in New York City, an industry he is still very active in, Findlay offers insights into the vibe and energy at the time, with intimate recollections about famous painters, sculptors, art deals and collectors, as well as anyone from the creative industry during those decades. Findlay certainly found himself in the middle of the action. His book is candid, descriptive and full of surprises.
He dedicates the book to “Victoria, my wife now and forever,” who is an art conservator and writer.
Today, Findlay is a director of Acquavella Galleries in New York and considers himself to be a “poet, essayist and author.”
Twentieth-century cultural history buffs — and those who are invested in the post-World War II art market or the crazy and chaotic art scene of 1960s and 1970s New York — will find this book a page-turner.
What We Are Reading Today: Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- In “Parfit,” David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius
Author: David Edmonds
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person.
In “Parfit,” David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.
Believing that we should be less concerned with ourselves and more with the common good, Parfit dedicated himself to the pursuit of philosophical progress to an extraordinary degree. He always wore gray trousers and a white shirt so as not to lose precious time picking out clothes, he varied his diet as little as possible, and he had only one serious non-philosophical interest: taking photos of Oxford, Venice, and St. Petersburg. In the latter half of his life, he single-mindedly devoted himself to a desperate attempt to rescue secular morality—morality without God—by arguing that it has an objective, rational basis.
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dark Matter’
By David J. E. Marsh, David Ellis, and Viraf M. Mehta
This book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing subjects in modern physics, presenting the evidence we have from astrophysics for the existence of dark matter, the theories for what it could be, and the cutting-edge experimental and observational methods for testing them.
The book explains the constraints on each theory, such as direct detection and indirect astrophysical limits, and enables students to build physical intuition using hands-on exercises and supplemental material.
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Britain’s Birds’
Authors: Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, & David Tipling
A bestselling guide since it was first published, Britain’s Birds has quickly established itself as the go-to photographic identification guide to the birds of Great Britain and Ireland—the most comprehensive, up-to-date, practical and user-friendly book of its kind.
Acclaimed by birdwatchers of all kinds, from the beginner to the most experienced, the guide has now been thoroughly revised and updated to make it even better than before.
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Information’
Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing and Anthony Grafton
Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information.
How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global emergence of information practices and technologies across pivotal epochs and regions, providing invaluable historical perspectives on the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies.
