Working Across Cultures: A Field Guide for Global Teams

19 chapters. 57 ready-to-use templates inside the book. Eight cultural dimensions. Built from 20+ yearsinside international companies. This system works.A conference room in Singapore. Your slides are clean, your logic is airtight, and the deal is dying in front ofyou - and you have no idea why. The long pause wasn't hesitation. The "we'll consider it" already meant no.The quiet senior person in the corner held the real decision, and you never spoke to them.It happens to almost everyone who steps into a global role without a map. International companies pay morethan identical local firms - but they ask for something local firms don't: the ability to work well with peoplewhose instincts about communication, feedback, and authority differ from yours. Miss that, and the higher-paying job becomes the hardest one to keep.Without the system: you read every room in your own cultural language, mistake a cultural style for acharacter flaw, and watch the promotion go to someone "easier to work with."With it: you read the gap before you speak, adjust by exactly the right amount, and become the person whocan be dropped onto any cross-border team and make it work.This book is the system Mike Pritula built across recruiting, rewards, and HR leadership at Wargaming, Preply, iDeals, and beyond - and teaches to 150,000+ students. Inside, you get the eight dimensions that decideevery cross-cultural interaction: - The Context Scale - hear what's said and what's actually meant- The Feedback Map - give hard news without blowing up the relationship- The Persuasion Grid - know whether to lead with theory or with proof- The Leadership Ladder - match the authority distance your team expects- The Decision Clock - find the room and the person where choices get made- The Trust Switch - earn credibility the way they grant it- The Conflict Switch - disagree productively with people who never disagree in public- The Time Sense - read deadlines, lateness, and scheduling across cultures57 ready-to-use templates - all inside the book: - The Culture-Shock Audit- The 8-Dimension Country Scorecard- The Context-Scale Calibrator- The Cross-Cultural Email Rewriter- The Feedback Calibrator- The Cross-Cultural Review Script- The Trust-Switch Diagnostic- The Decision-Style Mapper- The Face-Saving Phrase Bank- The Pre-Engagement Brief- The Repair Conversation Script- The 90-Day Fluency Plan- Plus country quick-reference profiles for the cultures you work with mostNo email walls. No resource pages. No broken download links. Every template is on the page.Erin Meyer's The Culture Map is the field's classic reference; a single cross-cultural consulting session runsinto four figures; a corporate workshop, more. This is the same skill, made practical, for the price of apaperback.Stop guessing across borders. Start reading the room. Get the book.