Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures » (1st Edition)

Brooks Peterson is founder and president of Across Cultures Inc., an international consulting firm serving global leaders. An experienced cross-cultural trainer, researcher and graduate-level educator, he has lived and traveled extensively around the world and now lives and works in Minneapolis. For more information, visit his website at www.acrosscultures.com. He is also the creator of a variety of instruments and resources for internationally-focused businesspeople, including the widely used Peterson Cultural Style IndicatorT, available online.

Peterson is an experienced cross-cultural trainer, researcher, and graduate-level educator, and is the founder and president of an international consulting firm based in Minneapolis. His text is written for working professionals who interact with immigrants and foreign co-workers--at home, in international trade at home, and/or while working and living abroad--but have had no formal training in culture basics. Academic but accessible to general readers, the text provides a framework for understanding culture and a practical definition of cultural intelligence, which will help readers increase their cultural intelligence and improve their cross-cultural interactions. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR