Managing across cultures

an invented word combining world wide and regional concerns

thought based on reason and judgement rather than feelings and emotions

reducing demands or changing opinions in order to agree

understanding or knowing without consciously using reason

people of influence or importance with whom you are associated

to do something when necessary without having already planned it

respect, prestige or importance given to someone

believing that the group is more important than the individual

to be humiliated or disrespected in public

to cut into someone else’s turn to speak

looking directly at the people you are talking or listening to