On Track With The Japanese: An Interactive Workbook For Effective Negotiating And Trust Building With The Japanese - Softcover

Gercik, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463405618 ISBN 13: 9781463405618

Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

On Track with the Japanese: Rapid Learning System Workbook provides a powerful interactive took for understanding the issues of building trust that often inhibit and plague effective communication and negotiation with Japanese. If you are confounded by your Japanese partners, this workbook will provide the understanding of a Japanese road map to creating trust and moving the relationship through four trust building stages. The workbook creates a fluency with core concept such as face, obligation, self presentation and many others. Exercises in each stage build on the last and the workbook traces the process of moving through stages and provides opportunities to test one's position and skills thereby developing the attitudes and techniques necessary for working and negotiating successfully with the Japanese.

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About the Author

Patricia Gercik spent the first twenty years of her life in Japan, where her family had been doing business in Japan since the 1920s. She worked as a travel guide and as a facilitator on Japanese TV devoted to explaining Japan to the West and vice versa. She then came to America and earned a BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a MA degree from Tufts University. From 1966 to 1985, Gercik taught a variety of history and culture courses in leading private schools in the Boston area including Buckingham Browne and Nichols, Beaver Country day School, Manter Hall School, Thayer Academy, and the Cambridge School of Weston, developing and teaching new curricular materials in such areas as Russian, Japanese and European history and culture. Since 1885, Gercik has led the MIT Japan Program. As Managing Director of the Program, the largest center of applied Japanese studies in the U.S. In this Program, her main activities include developing and teaching courses and special programs that prepare MIT students, faculty and corporate executives, to do research and/or business with Japan. The MIT-Japan Program has trained and placed more than 900 MIT students in Japanese research centers and management jobs in Japan. In addition, Gercik has developed a network of more than 25 leading US companies that support the Program and she provides training to their key managers preparing for assignments in Japan. Using her unique bi-cultural perspective, she has led workshops on Japanese culture and negotiation practice at companies such as NEC, General Electric, Kodak, Genzyme Corporation, Ford, IBM, Motorola, and others. In particular, these sessions focus on strategy and building trust with their Japanese subsidiaries, suppliers and customers. In addition, she has led training sessions for Army Research Labs, the Pentagon, and the Air Force on building successful joint research projects. Her dedication to inter

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1463405618
• ISBN 13: 9781463405618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84