Global Dexterity How To Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures, De Molinsky, Andy. Editorial Harvard Business Review Press, Tapa Dura En Inglés, 2013

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Global Dexterity: How To Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process

“I wrote this book because I believe that there is a serious gap in what has been written and communicated about cross-cultural management and what people actually struggle with on the ground.” - From the Introduction

What does it mean to be a global worker and a true “citizen of the world” today? It goes beyond merely acknowledging cultural differences. In reality, it means you are able to adapt your behavior to conform to new cultural contexts without losing your authentic self in the process. Not only is this difficult, it’s a frightening prospect for most people and something completely outside their comfort zone.

But managing and communicating with people from other cultures is an essential skill today. Most of us collaborate with teams across borders and cultures on a regular basis, whether we spend our time in the office or out on the road. What’s needed now is a critical new skill, something author Andy Molinsky calls global dexterity.

In this book, Molinsky offers the tools needed to simultaneously adapt behavior to new cultural contexts while staying authentic and grounded in your own natural style. Based on more than a decade of research, teaching, and consulting with managers and executives around the world, this book reveals an approach to adapting while feeling comfortable - an essential skill that enables you to switch behaviors and overcome the emotional and psychological challenges of doing so.

From identifying and overcoming challenges to integrating what you learn into your everyday environment, Molinsky provides a guidebook - and mentoring - to raise your confidence and your profile. Practical, engaging, and refreshing, Global Dexterity will help you reach across cultures - and succeed in today’s global business environment.

Review
Global Dexterity by Andy Molinsky is the best book I’ve come across for providing practical, research-based suggestions for adapting (and not adapting) behavior. - David Livermore, PhD as seen on Cultural Intelligence Center

“A resolutely practical approach, supported by numerous examples that make this book lively, useful and interesting to read.” - Manageris

“It's a book I recommend highly, particularly to people who are put in non-U.S. cultural situations but have not yet put much thought into the implications.” - Federal Computer Week

“Global Dexterity is an easy read and one that is accessible to people from all cultural backgrounds…” - International Higher Education Consulting

“…an important book with wide application to the field of international education.” - NAFSA’s International Educator

“When it comes to cultural competence, there are some big gaps between knowing about, knowing how to, and actually developing and applying the skills to manage self in real situations. Andy Molinsky has provided us with a methodology for bridging into the third and most critical of these steps, and his choice of the word dexterity in the title of the book is well chosen... The book is well written and an easy read.” - George Simons-SIETAR France (Society of Intercultural Education Training and Research)

“This book is a quick and easy-to-understand resource for anyone who might find himself in a remotely foreign culture. It might simply save you some unneeded embarrassment, or it might go as far as saving your job.” - 800 CEO READ

“Molinsky presents a succinct method for figuring out how to adapt to new cultural events, such as delivering feedback to Japanese colleagues, interviewing for a job in an overseas country, or participating more successfully in a meeting with foreign executives.” - Global Business and Organizational Excellence

“a very readable and enjoyable primer with helpful tips for cross cultural behavior.” - The International Admissions Officer Bookshelf - Summer 2013, Intead (International Education Advantage)

“This is a one-of-a-kind book on developing cross-cultural insight. Like most subjects, you cannot learn it in one reading. Practice is essential. Bu