BCOR 299: Business Communication

With the aid of the specially developed 5 COCOs model, expert authors demonstrate how to get your communications right internationally and ensure that meetings, both face-to-face and virtual, go according to plan. Barry Tomalin and Mike Nicks offer strategies and tactics for getting people from different countries on your side, detailing the knowledge you need to make the right impression and to avoid causing offence. The authors provide a framework for understanding any culture in the world, but include specific chapters on the predicted top 16 economies in the world in 2050 (as predicted by Morgan Grenfell bank)."

The Passport to the World Series contains detailed information about foreign business practices, negotiating styles, customs, business etiquette, view of foreigners, and much more. The series includes data on over 50 countries.

In a foreign country and unable to get from the airport to the city centre? Don't know how to connect to the Internet to check e-mail? How to find a doctor who speaks English? Or how to use a pay phone? This book aims to provide the answers. It contains pragmatic travel and business information critical to daily survival while on the road internationally. It is aimed at any international business traveller, travel firms and corporations with international sales teams.

International business and leisure travel etiquette expert Roger Axtell's best-selling Do's and Taboos books have helped hundreds of thousands of business travelers and tourists avoid the missteps and misunderstandings the world traveler can encounter. In Essential Do's and Taboos, Axtell shares the wisdom he has compiled over alifetime of international experience. Whether you need to know the best time of year to set up a businessmeeting in Germany or why the O.K. sign is not O.K. in Brazil,you'll find practical, fascinating, culture-savvy, up-to-date advice to help you steer clear of faux pas and face the world with confidence. Essential Do's and Taboos features: * Information on customs, protocol, etiquette, hand gestures, and body language * Fresh advice regarding Internet business and communication options * Country-specific chapters on eleven popular locations--from old favorites like England, France, Japan, and Germany to hot tourist destinations and emerging economies like India, China, Russia, and Mexico *

CultureShock! is a series of trusted and reputed guides which has, for decades, been helping expatriates and long-term visitors to cushion the impact of culture shock whenever they move to a new country.