Description
Book SynopsisA recent study of corporate managers found that one out of five projects fail primarily because of ineffective transnational communication, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars. This book examines how communications between transnational partners routinely break down, even when all parties are fluent English speakers.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. A Duty to Die
2. Bringing a Gun to a Fistfight
3. Don’t Lie to Me
4. Show Me Yours
5. Dead Dogs Don’t Bark
6. When Is Fruit a Vegetable?
7. Private Parts
8. Is a Burrito a Sandwich?
9. Haunted Contracts
10. That Jet Won’t Fly
11. What Have You Done for Me Lately?
12. The Dancer Who Didn’t Dance
13. A Peerless Peer
14. And the Band Played On
15. Don’t Do Me Like That
16. The Five-Year-Old Defendant
17. Don’t Forget to Duck
18. The Worth of a Chance
19. Pray at Your Own Risk
20. Coin-Flip Wrongdoers
21. Growing Your Own
22. Your Body, My Body
23. Imagine No (Copyright) Possessions
24. My Barbie World
25. A Time for Dying
26. The Voice of God
27. Judging Jenna
28. Three Generations
29. A Good Walk Spoiled
30. That’s My Mother You’re Talking About!
31. Funeral Crashers
32. Bench Memo
Notes
Index
