"Managers who readily accept that the cuisine, the literature, the music and the art of other countries run parallel to one another, must also learn to accept that the Culture and Art of Management differs across countries."

Andre’ Laurent
Professor INSEAD

"Culture is more often a source of conflict than synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and a disaster at their worst."

Geert Hofstede
Leading Authority on Culture

"Culture does count, Big Time. No matter how good the numbers look, culture matters as much as financial profile."

Jack Welch
Former CEO,GE Corporation

"In the context of the Global Village, Managers must be able to cross-culturally manage themselves; then manage cross-cultural differences at interpersonal level and finally cross-culturally manage at the organizational level."

Chen & Starosta
Professors

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