Cultural Intelligence For Stone-Age Brains

Whether we want to deal with the Chinese, integrate staff from India or work with various different regions in the same country, cultural habits are there to trip us up. Conventional thinking and lack of cultural intelligence constantly wreck masses of opportunities.
And it you are one of those expats here in the kingdom of Denmark, then you are faced with bigger challenges than that.
According to studies, around a third of the highly skilled people who move to Denmark end up surprised by the cultural differences. But that's not very surprising. In the social sciences it's nothing new that Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia differ significantly on the cultural level from a lot of other places in the world.
You can't find a country with more trust, less religiousness, a greater emphasis on equality but also a significant tendency towards social reclusiveness and much more.
But why are Danes so different and how do you crack the code of Danish society?

Author: Dennis Nørmark

Publisher: Gyldendal Business

Released Date: 2013

ISBN: 9788702149937