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An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this "brilliant guide to what all business leaders need to know right now" (Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times and global bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There) When it comes to...

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

Read by the author and available digitally for the first time From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe's greatest culinary adventures "Bourdain shows himself to be one of the country's best food writers...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Superfreakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt, read by Stephen J. Dubner. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity to...

From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people...

Bloomsbury presents The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment by Ann Latham, read by Laurence Bouvard An engaging guide on how to bring clarity on both an individual and organizational level and improve workplace efficiency...

Check out these famous countries and regions that owe their shapes to an important geographic feature. These features help dictate so much about the countries they border.

The majority of immigrants who passed through Angel Island Immigration Station in the early 20th century came from China and Japan, but large groups also came from a few other nations.

Nattukotai Chettiars were the most prominent business community from Tamil region and this book captures their spirit of enterprise that led many of them to seek their fortunes overseas. It’s a story that connects South India, Burma, and South-East Asia across the Bay of Bengal and equally one...

Hello and welcome to this podcast all about cultural exchange! Together we will go on an experiential journey through various cultures. Every week a new guest will invite us to see their culture(s) through their very own eyes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural...

Bloomsbury presents The World in 2050 by Hamish McRae, read by Gordon Griffin. A dazzling history of the future – Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force' – Tim Harford _______________ A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from one of Europe’s foremost speakers on global trends...

Sebastian Harris, the founder of globalseducer.com and author of Rise of the Phoenix: How to Get the Hottest Girls in a World That Wants You to Fail shares his experience picking up girls in dozens of countries on five different continents. If you struggle with approach anxiety, fear of women, fear of rejection, and the popular "what should I say next" syndrome, Sebastian's daily 10-minute rants about pickup and seduction will change your life. It doesn't matter if you want a girlfriend, friends with benefits relationships, or if you want to travel the world and seduce a new breathtaking young...

China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper...

Remembering Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: A Family Tribute is a special radio show and podcast hosted by the former Prime Minister's son Ben Mulroney. It celebrates the life of one of Canada's most dynamic leaders with the people who knew him best including: Former U.S Presidents' George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, Reba McEntire, Michael Bublé, Wayne Gretzky and David Foster.

Connecting cultures through music, arts and great conversations🎙️ Curated by @cwstudios_global

From the 8th to the 13th centuries, the Abbasid Caliphate fostered an unprecedented flourishing of science, philosophy, and culture. In Baghdad's House of Wisdom, scholars like al-Khwarizmi pioneered algebra, while al-Razi advanced medicine and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) synthesized Aristotelian thought with Islamic theology. This era saw the translation and preservation of Greek classics, the development of astrolabes and observatories, and innovations in chemistry, optics, and geography. Philosophers like al-Farabi and Averroes engaged in debates over reason and revelation that echoed through ...

READ BY FINTY WILLIAMS. The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into...

A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.

Air pollution kills over a million Indians every year, albeit silently. Families are thrown into a spiralling cycle of hospital visits, critically poor health and financial trouble impacting their productivity and ability to participate in the economy. Children born in regions of high air...