Books by Robert Gibson

The essential guide for working in diverse teams and across cultures today. This practical self-help guide will optimize the performance of individuals and teams working in an intercultural environment. By increasing awareness of the nature and impact of diversity in the workplace and national cultural differences, it demonstrates how to use the power of difference to achieve positive results for all. Learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations and how to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. Addressing the unique challenges of influencing across cultures and managing international transformation projects, this is an indispensable toolkit for a key competence in business.Leading interculturalist Robert Gibson challenges conventional ideas and makes new connections between culture, diversity and neuroscience in this modern guide for anyone working virtually or together in a diverse team or international business. Use these simple and proven approaches for better communication, collaboration, leadership and decision making in today's globalised workplace.

Classic forms of Chinese jade, and other sculpted works, have a message. A song the piece sings.Knowing the prayer, legend, or lesson the piece sings enhances the experience a step beyond seeing the artwork, the value, or its function. Each figure represented can speak to you.Learn how the Chinese see their dragon as benevolent, rather than a menace. Read the story of the goddess, Quan yin. (a cindarella story).Illustrated, and explained, using the authors collection, are the songs of a different culture, and traditions thousands of years old.