The Cultural Intelligence Difference
Master the One Skill You Can't Do Without in Today's Global Economy
By: David Livermore, Ph.D.
Published: May 30, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 081441706X
ISBN-13: 978-0814417065
Publisher: AMACOM
"The number one predictor of your success in today's borderless world is not your IQ, not your resume, and not even your experience. It's your CQ,a powerful capability that is proven to enhance your effectiveness working in culturally diverse situations", writes President and partner at the Cultural Intelligence Center, David Livermore, Ph.D., in his practical and research based book The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can't Do Without in Today's Global Economy. The author describes the importance of developing cultural intelligence (CQ) skills for both individuals and organizations as crucial to success in today's global economy.
David Livermore follows up his important book Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success with a very useful guide for assessing and evaluating your own cultural intelligence abilities. The author presents the latest research into cultural intelligence and its critical significance in a multicultural world. Workplaces are increasingly more culturally diverse, organizations are more globally located, and multiculturalism is becoming the everyday reality in cities and neighborhoods. With this new world, and its multitude of cultural differences, the individuals best able to learn, understand, and adapt to diversity will have a career advantage in any walk of life. David Livermore provides the essential tools and learning guide to developing CQ for both personal enrichment and organizational benefit.
David Livermore, Ph.D. (photo left) recognizes that the world is changing, and that those who fail to grasp and embrace the new multicultural reality will be left behind. The author presents a dual approach to establishing enhanced cultural intelligence for anyone. The first aspect of the approach is the self assessment guide to discovering existing cultural intelligence levels. The second part of the approach is how to further increase that CQ evaluation. The author provides an overview of four areas where strengths and weaknesses in current CQ ability can be pinpointed and positioned for improvement:
* CQ Drive
* CQ Knowledge
* CQ Strategy
* CQ Action
For me, the power of the book is how David Livermore combines strong background knowledge of cultural intelligence and leading edge research into CQ,with a very useful self assessment tool and practical skills for developing existing CQ abilities. The book also includes access to the powerful CQ self assessment tool to evaluate exiting cultural intelligence skills. This comprehensive approach to deeper understanding of cultural intelligence underscores the critical importance that CQ holds in modern multicultural life and a global economy.
With the need to be able to work, manage, and negotiate in many different cultural environments the reality now and in the future, this book is a leading edge tool to gain competence in inter-cultural relations of all types. For job seekers and rising managers, this book presents an opportunity to develop a unique career skill set to set one apart from the competition in the tough employment market.
I highly recommend the valuable and essential book The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can't Do Without in Today's Global Economy by David Livermore, to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the growing importance of cultural intelligence in today's globalized world. A failure to embrace cultural intelligence in a world of increasing diversity will set back an individual's career and an organization's overall success. This book provides a remedy to those existing shortcomings, and enhances cross-cultural abilities.
Read the leading edge and future is now book The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can't Do Without in Today's Global Economy by David Livermore, and put the power and personal benefits of improved cultural intelligence to work for you and your organization. The time for understanding and embracing diversity and cross-cultural knowledge is now, and this book places a person and any organization at the forefront of the global multicultural revolution.
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