The International Manager ─ A Guide for Communicating, Cooperating, and Negotiating With Worldwide Colleagues

This book gives managers insight into what they can do concretely to manage their (virtual) intercultural teams and deal with partners, suppliers, and customers from other countries. Managers quite often are aware conceptually of the different dimensions of culture yet struggle to translate these insights to practical, day-to-day activities. The book gives practical strategies for how to apply popular management models (mostly American by origin) in other cultures as well.

Frank Garten is an independent business consultant, specializing in cross-cultural communication and cooperation. He advises and helps companies improve their cooperation with people from other cultures, and gives workshops, lectures, and training courses (both open and in-company) on this topic. Before publishing this book, Frank published the Dutch bookWerken met Andere Culturen (Working with Other Cultures), and he frequently publishes blogs and articles on intercultural cooperation. Frank is based in the Netherlands, but facilitates personal development programs across the world in the areas of leadership development, communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation.