Germany - Culture Smart!

Name: Germany - Culture Smart!
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Barry Tomalin
ISBN: 9781666592085

Author: Barry Tomalin

Narrator: Peter Noble

Unabridged: 3 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 03/29/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Reference, Travel, Europe, Germany

Synopsis

This new, updated edition of Culture Smart! Germany examines the vast changes that have lead to Germany's new world confidence. It explains how German traditional values and working methods are adapting to take advantage of international opportunities and global society while maintaining the commitment to quality, organization, and time that marks out German business life. It shows how the traditional differences between Germany's regions are lessening, enabling society to come together and better absorb new immigrants, and above all how Germans are losing the fear and guilt associated with their twentieth-century wars and finding a new voice on the international stage.

About Barry Tomalin

Barry Tomalin is Senior Lecturer in International Communication and Cultural Awareness at the London Academy of Diplomacy and Director of the Business Cultural Trainers Certificate at International House, London. He has taught at Link University in Rome, and run training programs in Milan, Rome, Genoa, and Naples. He has traveled extensively in Italy and provides the visitor with his firsthand experience and professional insight into this fascinating country and its people.

About Peter Noble

Peter Noble is an experienced audiobook narrator. Born in South Africa, he was dragged by hippie musicians from his idyllic childhood, where he ran barefoot through rich and matted grass with his dog Bartok, to vegetarian communes from California to India via Lisbon, London, and Findhorn. He picked up a wide range of authentic local accents and character voices along the way.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on June 04, 2017

My husband and I are taking a trip to Munich this July, and I wanted to learn more about German culture and etiquette. This little book was perfect! It's full of useful information, like these gems: --Don't jaywalk. This will earn you a fine. --Business and pleasure do not mix. Don't try to take your......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on August 16, 2012

Read this before moving to Germany for a couple years and found it extremely informative and helpful. Great that it is also easy reading and not too dry.......more

Goodreads review by Lloyd on March 22, 2024

What is the difference between defining a culture and defining a stereotype? Awareness of, and interest in, other cultures is lauded as a valuable trait that should be cultivated, quite unlike stereotypes, which are almost universally condemned, but they both arise from similar origins. Culture is......more

Goodreads review by Luke on March 11, 2022

When I was in Texas, I would go to a gym during lunch. I would work out and then have to shower, change, brush my teeth, etc. There were plenty of people very comfortable with their nudity (good for them) and… lounging - meandering around with no seen purpose. I, on the other hand, would do the neces......more

Goodreads review by Doug on February 02, 2025

I've been to Germany (BDR, DDR, and reunified) more than a dozen times in the last 40 years for vacations and for my job. I have several business associates who work in Germany for aerospace companies and regulators. Especially if you've never been there, the author makes a number of very good point......more