Inter-Cultural Intelligence

Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign to us, teaching us how to hand over business cards in the appropriate fashion or how to shake hands the right way, but this only helps us to survive. But if we’re going to thrive in the global space we need to move beyond the ethno centric and national centric stereotyping and come to terms with the intercultural melting pot that surrounds us. We need to learn a language and Meta competencies that support us globally in all cultural contexts regardless of where in the world we’ve just travelled. Living every single day in the emerging markets reality and experiencing the globalized economy, we realized our Inter-Cultural Intelligence approach is truly at the cutting edge of thinking and is applicable in any geography that deals with intercultural complexity and globalization related issues. We are excited to finally have the opportunity to share with you what we have learned and how we are convinced that a radical new way of thinking is required if we want to deal with intercultural complexity in a way that allows us to channel the energy it unleashed so that we can use it to our benefit. This book is a product of our two decades experience, research and application of the Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) framework and methodology. Solely written to help people who operate in globalized and intercultural complex environments to deal with the pains, frustrations, they experience daily in the workplace In the pages that follow you will discover how ICI can help you to move from surviving to thriving, the first steps that will take you there and the things you need to develop superior Inter-Cultural Intelligence.

Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign to us, teaching us how to hand over business cards in the appropriate fashion or how to shake hands the right way, but this only helps us to survive. But if we’re going to thrive in the global space we need to move beyond the ethno centric and national centric stereotyping and come to terms with the intercultural melting pot that surrounds us. We need to learn a language and Meta competencies that support us globally in all cultural contexts regardless of where in the world we’ve just travelled. Living every single day in the emerging markets reality and experiencing the globalized economy, we realized our Inter-Cultural Intelligence approach is truly at the cutting edge of thinking and is applicable in any geography that deals with intercultural complexity and globalization related issues. We are excited to finally have the opportunity to share with you what we have learned and how we are convinced that a radical new way of thinking is required if we want to deal with intercultural complexity in a way that allows us to channel the energy it unleashed so that we can use it to our benefit. This book is a product of our two decades experience, research and application of the Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) framework and methodology. Solely written to help people who operate in globalized and intercultural complex environments to deal with the pains, frustrations, they experience daily in the workplace In the pages that follow you will discover how ICI can help you to move from surviving to thriving, the first steps that will take you there and the things you need to develop superior Inter-Cultural Intelligence.

“ I want to be a compass maker. I encourage, I equip and I release people to go off to places they wouldn’t have gone on their own” - Marco Blankenburgh Marco Blankenburgh is the Executive Director of KnowledgeWorkx, serving clients in the Gulf-Region, Southern Africa, Europe and Asia. KnowledgeWorkx has offices in the UAE and South Africa. Marco has held management positions in international business development, marketing and partnerships in the Netherlands, South Africa, Jordan, Egypt and the UAE. He has received International Masters degrees in Economics and Strategic Marketing Management in the Netherlands. Marco is a true intercultural Expert dealing with a wide variety of people from all over the world. He is well travelled and moves in and out of context daily but at the same time lives in an intercultural Environment in the United Arab Emirates. KnowledgeWorkx has been shaped by who he is as an individual and the KnowledgeWorkx products by his personal life journey. The Three Colors of Worldview© and the 12 Dimensions of Culture have seen an incredible response. As non-nationality, non-ethnicity specific tools they have proven to be globally applicable, allowing KnowledgeWorkx and its team to create a global footprint through these methodologies and tools.