The contents of this book: 1. Strategy I: Adopting a Global Vision 2. Strategy II: Developing Cultural Empathy 3. Strategy III: Acquiring Interpersonal Expertise 4. Strategy IV: Utilizing Global Negotiating Skills, etc.
People have been negotiating with one another since time began. Ordinarily, we think in terms of buying and selling when we think of negotiation; and most of us recognize that diplomats and labor representatives also bargain as part of their everyday work. What we fail to recognize is that all of us negotiate every day of our lives.
People you can?t stand: They?re those difficult people who don?t do what you want them to do, or do what you don?t want them to do ? and you don?t know what to do about them. You don?t have to be their victim anymore. You can change difficult people, you can communicate with them in such a way that they change themselves. This book will help you to identify and assemble elements of effective co…
In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…
This publication suggests that Information kiosks can be a timely model based on lessons learned from Internet Cafes, placing the focus on using the technology as a tool to deliver information and services to the underserved. Thus, the rural and disenfranchised of the world are given a voice and the prospect for expanded self-determination and the pursuit of a better life, as well as the possib…
This publication, which is a reflection and synthesis of the dialogue among the Task Force community, illustrates the importance placed on understanding, exploring and integrating the myriad applications of ICT with the Millennium Development Goals, a framework agreed to by member governments of the United Nations at the Millennium Summit in 2000. The MDGs are a set of time-bound and measurable…
This publication contains a series of papers that look at how information and communication technologies can be used to tackle development problems in Africa. The papers look at: background on ICT in Africa; and its current state; ICT in service development; the Un ICT task force and ICT as an instrument to leverage the Millennium Development Goals; the role of ICT in the African development ag…
This text provides an examination of one of the most controversial issues in Asia today - how the region reconciles its homegrown values with the conflicting and often Western values of modernization, globalization and economic development. In a series of chapters, each devoted to a country, the book explores just what "Asian values" - a highly charged term in modern Asia - means to the individ…
Dialogue Among Civilizations is a unique collection of presentations from the General Assembly of the United Nations on peace, tolerance and promoting a culture of understanding between nations.
Dialogue Among Civilizations is a unique collection of presentations from the General Assembly of the United Nations on peace, tolerance and promoting a culture of understanding between nations.