MANAGING ACROSS CULTURES IN A BIG FOUR CONSULTING FIRM Peter Massingham University of Wollongong Abstract This case examines how a big four consulting firm reviewed the performance of two of its Asian practices. It explores how the review was conducted‚ the findings‚ and how the outcomes were communicated. It reveals the challenges faced by Western managers in telling Eastern managers they need to improve their performance. The case is about cross cultural management and organisational structure
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In the book Welcome to Your Brain‚ Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang explain how the human brain processes sensory and cognitive information‚ regulates emotions‚ and forms memories. An important process for responding to the world‚ is to take in information and decipher what it means so the brain can come up with a response to it. Since people often have to react quickly to emergencies and limited-time opportunities‚ the brain usually aims for a hurried answer instead of taking its time to formulate a perfect
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Functions. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. "Function Notation: Even and Odd Functions." Function Notation: Even and Odd Functions. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. "Galileo Galilei." About.com Inventors. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. "The Rule of Four." The Rule of Four. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013.
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: In Book III Chapter 10‚ Aristotle begins to tell us his views on temperance or self-control. He sees temperance to be the virtue of the non-rational part of human beings. He believes that temperance is a mean concerned with pleasures‚ for it is concerned less‚ and in a different way‚ with pains (Aristotle‚ Nicomachean Ethics III. 1117B25-30). He distinguish pleasures of the soul from those of the body. Pleasures of the soul would be love of honor and of learning. Those who are concerned with those
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The book “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” by Michelle Hodkin is about a girl named Mara. Mara might look like your typical teenage girl that attends high school‚ but she is not anymore. Mara was involved in a horrible accident that left her as the only survivor while all of her friends died. Mara and her family relocate to Miami‚ FL. She has to begin school in the middle of the term while dealing with her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Then‚ she meets Noah‚ and falls in love Mara Dyer doesn’t
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Stolen‚ written by Lucy Christopher‚ was my chosen book for this quarter’s reading. This story is about a young 16 year old female named Gemma finding her way home after getting kidnapped by an old man who went by the name of Ty. While being held captive‚ Gemma and Ty start to develop an unusual relationship that lead them to knowing each other even more. For my visual representation of this book‚ I chose to create a collage based on the novel. I incorporated pictures of places‚ items‚ and characters
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Skye Mumau Quick Write Palmer Intro I already have mixed feelings about this book. Although I have found a lot of truth in the introduction‚ on the second page Palmer states “If you are a teacher who never has bad days‚ or who has them but does not care‚ this book is not for you. This book is for teachers who have good days and bad‚ and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts because they love learners
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Cited: Rodriguez‚ Richard. Hunger of Memory. New York: Bantam Books‚ 1983.
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it is in Sierra Leone and other countries with war and little law enforcement as we read about in the book a long way gone. In the book the main character Ishmael discovers that America is not at all like he heard through rap songs. When he moves to America and tells his story of being a soldier and killing people the people he talks to about it think that it is cool and Ishmael states in the book “violence in America is romanticized. I do agree with this statement that we do make war look easy and
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during this period; it had the most colonies in Africa and America. “The Book of Negroes” is a novel which talks about an African girl‚ Aminata‚ who is captured by the toubab when she is eleven years old and her experiences in different places among America‚ Canada and British. This book is a fictional novel‚ but there are also many facts that are similar
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