CHAPTER 7
Charting Your Progress over Time

Think for a moment about all the personal interactions you experience during a given workweek. Chances are, the list is quite long: business meetings; brainstorming sessions; conversations with your boss, colleagues, and subordinates; touching base with suppliers, contacts, and customers; making small talk at lunch and dinner meetings and at networking events; asking for favors; providing help, giving and receiving feedback, and many more. In short, a myriad of situations.

Now, imagine yourself doing these very same activities but in a foreign cultural setting. Instead of meeting with your boss at home in the United States, Germany, or Canada, you are interacting with an Italian boss in Rome. Instead ...

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