Dilemma Quote by Fons Trompenaars Download Open image “The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas” — Fons Trompenaars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dilemma International Management Managers Reconcile
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I think as a manager you want to manage at the highest level possible and international management is one of those higher levels. — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as… — Frederic Martel Copy Share Image
Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture.… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“70 percent of international ventures continue to fail because of cultural differences.2 Simplistic approaches that teach cultural practices and taboos aren't sufficient.” — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Education and international experience play a strong role in developing our level of cultural intelligence, but they don't guarantee success.1 I've met business leaders and government officials who have lived for decades overseas yet they demonstrate very little ability to see beyond their cultural blinders. And I've met other leaders living abroad, sometimes with minimal international experience, who are extremely… — David Livermore Copy Share
Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often — Steve McClaren Copy Share Image
The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given… — Fons Trompenaars Copy Share Image
Anyone who will look at my life from the outside won't see the struggles inside. Sometimes, things are not always as we see or percept them. We can't always live in an environment where there is only black and white. Sometimes we come across dilemmas like choosing between their happiness and ours. And of course, without taking into consideration right… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this.… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition… — Anonymous Copy Share
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born!… — Paul Hawken Copy Share
Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda. — Francois Hollande Copy Share
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is… — Maurice Strong Copy Share
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image