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    • Roger and Karl surprised
    • Interview Quotes
    • “You got it wrong!”
    • Topic Stories in German
    • “Ich werde gefeuert.”
    • “Es ist nur ein Auto!”
    • Spieltag – Ein Desaster !
    • “Das sehen Sie falsch.
    • Hans in Chicago
    • Prozesse – Zitate
    • Jobtausch
    • Roger und Karl überrascht
    • Up. Over. Down.
    • Wie schade
    • Game Day – A Disaster !
    • Hans in Chicago
    • What a shame!
    • “It’s only a car!”
    • “I’m fired.”
    • Up. Over. Down.
    • Job Swap
  • Who with whom
  • Quantify impact
  • Identify risk
  • Three Exercises
  • Elevator Pitch
  • Colleagues
    • Benefit of the Doubt
    • Personal and Participant
    • Attributing Motives
    • Three-Headed Monster
    • “Us against Them”
  • Don’t address
  • No support
  • Seven Points
  • Five Threes
  • Hard vs. Soft
  • Talks
    • Wrong thinking
    • Don’t address
    • Three Questions
    • Differences affect
    • Post-Merger Integration
    • Kelvion
  • Anecdotes
    • Friendly incompetence
    • Frau Schmitz
    • In tears
    • “They revisit strategic decisions!”
    • Flying too high
    • “Fill the vaccuum”
    • “Are the Germans holding back?”
    • Red Man. Green Man.
    • Father Kelly
    • “Are you crazy?”
    • Not arrogant Germans
    • W-Questions
    • “No cultural differences”
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    • Comentario
    • Liderazgo
  • Allemagne
    • Les Accords
    • Communication
    • Conflit
    • Cliente
    • Décider
    • Retour
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Processus
    • Produit
  • Germany
    • Process
    • Product
    • Communication
    • Agreements
    • Conflict
    • Decision Making
    • Feedback
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Customer
  • Germania
    • Comunicazione
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    • Produkt
  • _______________________________
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    • Les Accords
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    • Processus
    • Produit
  • United States
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    • Communication
    • Conflict
    • Customer
    • Decision Making
    • Feedback
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    • Comando
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  • _________________________________
  • — CONTRASTS —
  • Germany:USA
    • Agreements
      • Yes
      • No
      • Context
      • Follow-up
      • Deliverables
    • Communication
      • Directness
      • Work vs. Person
      • Small Talk
      • Controversial Topics
      • Unsolicited Advice
      • Directness_ua
    • Decision Making
      • Scope
      • Time
      • Resources
      • Analysis
      • Risk
    • Feedback
      • Performance
      • Praise
      • Criticism
      • Discretion
      • Scores
    • Conflict
      • Escalation
      • Hearing
      • Evidence
      • Acceptance
      • Speed
    • Customer
      • Consult vs. Serve
      • Customer-Supplier Expectations
      • Customer-Supplier Collaboration
    • Persuasion
      • Objectivity
      • Competence
      • Systematics
      • Reality
      • Inform vs. Sell
    • Leadership
      • Strategy and Tactics
      • Strategy Formulation
      • Strategy Modification
      • Lines of Communication
    • Product
      • Efficiency
      • Intelligence
      • Reliability
      • Durability
      • Quality
    • Process
      • Success Factor
      • Deductive vs. Inductive
      • Guaranty vs. Tool
      • Discipline vs. Deviation
      • Process as Power
  • Deutschland:USA
    • Kommunikation
      • Kontroverse Themen
      • Direktheit
      • Smalltalk
      • Ungebetene Ratschläge
      • Beruf vs. Person
    • Feedback
      • Kritik
      • Diskretion
      • Leistung
      • Lob
      • Noten
    • Führen
      • Kommunikationslinien
      • Strategie und Taktik
      • Strategieformulierung
      • Strategiemodifizierung
    • Konfliktlösung
      • Akzeptanz
      • Eskalierung
      • Beweismaterial
      • Anhörung
      • Zeitrahmen
    • Überzeugen
      • Kompetenz
      • Informieren vs. Verkaufen
      • Objektivität
      • Realität
      • Systematik
    • Kunde
      • Dienen vs. Beraten
      • Kunde-Lieferant Zusammenarbeit
      • Kunde-Lieferant Erwartungen
    • Prozesse
      • Deduktiv vs. Induktiv
      • Disziplin vs. Abweichung
      • Garantie vs. Werkzeug
      • Macht und Einfluss
      • Prozesse als Erfolgsfaktor
    • Entscheiden
      • Analyse
      • Ressourcen
      • Risiko
      • Umfang
      • Zeitrahmen
    • Abmachungen
      • Kontext
      • Arbeitsergebnisse
      • Nachhaken
      • Nein
      • Ja
    • Produkt
      • Effizienz
      • Intelligenz
      • Qualität
      • Zuverlässigkeit
      • Langelebigkeit
  • ________________________________
  • — PATTERNS —
  • Patterns
  • Exercises
    • Questions & Suggestions
    • Questions__
    • Respond
    • Eight Steps
    • Four Steps
      • Step 4 – Resolve
      • Step 2 – Problems
      • Step 3 – Address
      • Step 1 – Participants
    • Three Steps
      • Assess
        • Participants
        • Differences
        • Topics
      • Step 1 – Learn
      • Step 2 – Discuss
      • Step 3 – Apply
    • Exercises Topic
      • Exercises – Leadership
      • Exercises – Feedback
      • Exercises – Conflict
      • Exercises – Product
      • Exercises – Process
      • Exercises – Customer
      • Exercises – Communication
      • Exercises – Agreements
      • Exercises – Persuasion
      • Exercises – Decision Making
  • Questions
    • Important
  • __________________________________
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  • About
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      • How John helps
        • Integrate approaches
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        • Align post-merger
          • Who with whom
        • Explain culture
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  • вести
  • комунікації
  • угод
  • вирішити
  • зворотній зв’язок
  • Вести
  • комунікації
  • конфлікт
  • замовник
  • продукт
  • процесів
  • переконати
  • Focus on Hierarchy
  • Gain Peers as Allies
  • Meet One-to-One
  • For Company. For Me.
  • Minimize Risk
  • Training
  • Workshops
Menu

Understand Culture

  • — ACTIVE CAMPAIGN —
  • Topic Stories
    • Roger and Karl surprised
    • Interview Quotes
    • “You got it wrong!”
    • Topic Stories in German
    • “Ich werde gefeuert.”
    • “Es ist nur ein Auto!”
    • Spieltag – Ein Desaster !
    • “Das sehen Sie falsch.
    • Hans in Chicago
    • Prozesse – Zitate
    • Jobtausch
    • Roger und Karl überrascht
    • Up. Over. Down.
    • Wie schade
    • Game Day – A Disaster !
    • Hans in Chicago
    • What a shame!
    • “It’s only a car!”
    • “I’m fired.”
    • Up. Over. Down.
    • Job Swap
  • Who with whom
  • Quantify impact
  • Identify risk
  • Three Exercises
  • Elevator Pitch
  • Colleagues
    • Benefit of the Doubt
    • Personal and Participant
    • Attributing Motives
    • Three-Headed Monster
    • “Us against Them”
  • Don’t address
  • No support
  • Seven Points
  • Five Threes
  • Hard vs. Soft
  • Talks
    • Wrong thinking
    • Don’t address
    • Three Questions
    • Differences affect
    • Post-Merger Integration
    • Kelvion
  • Anecdotes
    • Friendly incompetence
    • Frau Schmitz
    • In tears
    • “They revisit strategic decisions!”
    • Flying too high
    • “Fill the vaccuum”
    • “Are the Germans holding back?”
    • Red Man. Green Man.
    • Father Kelly
    • “Are you crazy?”
    • Not arrogant Germans
    • W-Questions
    • “No cultural differences”
  • ________________________________
  • — HOME —
  • Welcome
  • _______________________________
  • — GERMANY_ —
  • Alemania
    • Persuasión
    • Proceso
    • Producto
    • Acuerdos
    • Comunicación
    • Conflicto
    • Cliente
    • Toma de decisiones
    • Comentario
    • Liderazgo
  • Allemagne
    • Les Accords
    • Communication
    • Conflit
    • Cliente
    • Décider
    • Retour
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Processus
    • Produit
  • Germany
    • Process
    • Product
    • Communication
    • Agreements
    • Conflict
    • Decision Making
    • Feedback
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Customer
  • Germania
    • Comunicazione
    • Accordi
    • Persuasione
    • Decisioni
    • Comando
    • Feedback
    • Conflitto
    • Prodotto
    • Cliente
    • Processi
  • Deutschland
    • Kunde
    • Abmachungen
    • Kommunikation
    • Konfliktlösung
    • Entscheiden
    • Feedback
    • Führen
    • Überzeugen
    • Prozesse
    • Produkt
  • _______________________________
  • — UNITED STATES_ —
  • Estados Unidos
    • Acuerdos
    • Comunicación
    • Conflicto
    • Cliente
    • Toma de decisiones
    • Comentario
    • Liderazgo
    • Persuasión
    • Proceso
    • Producto
  • États-Unis
    • Les Accords
    • Communication
    • Conflit
    • Cliente
    • Décider
    • Retour
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Processus
    • Produit
  • United States
    • Agreements
    • Communication
    • Conflict
    • Customer
    • Decision Making
    • Feedback
    • Leadership
    • Persuasion
    • Process
    • Product
  • Stati Uniti
    • Accordi
    • Persuasione
    • Decisioni
    • Comando
    • Feedback
    • Conflitto
    • Prodotto
    • Processi
    • Cliente
    • Comunicazione
  • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Abmachungen
    • Kommunikation
    • Konfliktlösung
    • Kunde
    • Entscheiden
    • Feedback
    • Führen
    • Überzeugen
    • Prozesse
    • Produkt
  • _________________________________
  • — CONTRASTS —
  • Germany:USA
    • Agreements
      • Yes
      • No
      • Context
      • Follow-up
      • Deliverables
    • Communication
      • Directness
      • Work vs. Person
      • Small Talk
      • Controversial Topics
      • Unsolicited Advice
      • Directness_ua
    • Decision Making
      • Scope
      • Time
      • Resources
      • Analysis
      • Risk
    • Feedback
      • Performance
      • Praise
      • Criticism
      • Discretion
      • Scores
    • Conflict
      • Escalation
      • Hearing
      • Evidence
      • Acceptance
      • Speed
    • Customer
      • Consult vs. Serve
      • Customer-Supplier Expectations
      • Customer-Supplier Collaboration
    • Persuasion
      • Objectivity
      • Competence
      • Systematics
      • Reality
      • Inform vs. Sell
    • Leadership
      • Strategy and Tactics
      • Strategy Formulation
      • Strategy Modification
      • Lines of Communication
    • Product
      • Efficiency
      • Intelligence
      • Reliability
      • Durability
      • Quality
    • Process
      • Success Factor
      • Deductive vs. Inductive
      • Guaranty vs. Tool
      • Discipline vs. Deviation
      • Process as Power
  • Deutschland:USA
    • Kommunikation
      • Kontroverse Themen
      • Direktheit
      • Smalltalk
      • Ungebetene Ratschläge
      • Beruf vs. Person
    • Feedback
      • Kritik
      • Diskretion
      • Leistung
      • Lob
      • Noten
    • Führen
      • Kommunikationslinien
      • Strategie und Taktik
      • Strategieformulierung
      • Strategiemodifizierung
    • Konfliktlösung
      • Akzeptanz
      • Eskalierung
      • Beweismaterial
      • Anhörung
      • Zeitrahmen
    • Überzeugen
      • Kompetenz
      • Informieren vs. Verkaufen
      • Objektivität
      • Realität
      • Systematik
    • Kunde
      • Dienen vs. Beraten
      • Kunde-Lieferant Zusammenarbeit
      • Kunde-Lieferant Erwartungen
    • Prozesse
      • Deduktiv vs. Induktiv
      • Disziplin vs. Abweichung
      • Garantie vs. Werkzeug
      • Macht und Einfluss
      • Prozesse als Erfolgsfaktor
    • Entscheiden
      • Analyse
      • Ressourcen
      • Risiko
      • Umfang
      • Zeitrahmen
    • Abmachungen
      • Kontext
      • Arbeitsergebnisse
      • Nachhaken
      • Nein
      • Ja
    • Produkt
      • Effizienz
      • Intelligenz
      • Qualität
      • Zuverlässigkeit
      • Langelebigkeit
  • ________________________________
  • — PATTERNS —
  • Patterns
  • Exercises
    • Questions & Suggestions
    • Questions__
    • Respond
    • Eight Steps
    • Four Steps
      • Step 4 – Resolve
      • Step 2 – Problems
      • Step 3 – Address
      • Step 1 – Participants
    • Three Steps
      • Assess
        • Participants
        • Differences
        • Topics
      • Step 1 – Learn
      • Step 2 – Discuss
      • Step 3 – Apply
    • Exercises Topic
      • Exercises – Leadership
      • Exercises – Feedback
      • Exercises – Conflict
      • Exercises – Product
      • Exercises – Process
      • Exercises – Customer
      • Exercises – Communication
      • Exercises – Agreements
      • Exercises – Persuasion
      • Exercises – Decision Making
  • Questions
    • Important
  • __________________________________
  • — MENU —
  • About
    • John Otto Magee
      • How John helps
        • Integrate approaches
        • Direct leaders
        • Align post-merger
          • Who with whom
        • Explain culture
        • Improve collaboration
      • Philadelphia
      • Philadelphia
      • Companies
      • How John thinks
    • Research
      • Pull
      • Method
      • Steps
      • Teams
  • Join
    • Management
    • Colleagues
  • Contact
    • Terms
    • Privacy
  • You’re in !
  • You’re out.
  • _________________________________
  • — PARKED —
    • Parked Content
  • конфлікт
  • замовник
  • продукт
  • процесів
  • Переконати
  • угод
  • вирішити
  • зворотній зв’язок
  • вести
  • комунікації
  • угод
  • вирішити
  • зворотній зв’язок
  • Вести
  • комунікації
  • конфлікт
  • замовник
  • продукт
  • процесів
  • переконати
  • Focus on Hierarchy
  • Gain Peers as Allies
  • Meet One-to-One
  • For Company. For Me.
  • Minimize Risk
  • Training
  • Workshops
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