Books and Resources
The books available for purchase below are a great way to introduce yourself and others to the cutting edge implications of cultural intelligence.
Additionally, we encourage you to visit our research area to view the scientific knowledge about CQ.
Books
The Curious Traveler
See The World. Change Your Life.
This book explores the links between curiosity, cultural intelligence, and travel. Learn how to harness the power of curiosity to make your travel better. Whether it’s discovering a culture through food, navigating different norms for queuing and schedules, or figuring out how to barter, you’ll learn how to discover things about yourself and others that most travelers miss.
Driven by Difference
How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
This book draws upon the latest research on cultural intelligence to describe how to leverage the power of cultural differences to drive innovation. Based on extensive research and filled with examples and case studies from around the world, learn how to create a strategy for culturally intelligent innovation.
Leading with Cultural Intelligence, 3rd edition
The Real Secret to Success
This book has become the go-to resource for applying the cultural intelligence research to leadership. The third edition includes new content in every chapter reflecting updated research of how leaders and organizations are successfully using CQ in our increasingly diverse, complex world.
Expand Your Borders
Discover Ten Cultural Clusters
This book provides a quick overview of the ten largest cultural clusters in the world: Nordic, Anglo, Germanic, Eastern Europe, Latin Europe, Latin America, Confucian Asia, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab. Use this as a quick way to improve your global perspective and refer back to it as a handbook.
Customs of the World
Using Cultural Intelligence To Adapt, Wherever You Are
This 24-lecture audio/video course covers ten of the cultural differences that are most important to understand. And then you’ll see how they influence customs and behavior across the ten largest cultural clusters in the world. This course is an excellent way to begin the journey toward improved cultural intelligence.
The Cultural Intelligence Difference
Master the One Skill You Can’t do Without in Today’s Global Economy
This book is packed with dozens of strategies proven to increase your cultural intelligence (CQ) in the 4 capabilities of CQ. Purchase of the book includes access to the only academically validated CQ assessment in the world.
Digital, Diverse & Divided
How to talk to racists, compete with robots, and overcome polarization
Digital, Diverse & Divided is a book about how to get along with people who have different views than you about topics like politics, religion, gender, and race. Moving beyond awareness and dialogue, the book introduces readers to cultural intelligence as an evidence-based way to work together to address problems facing all of us. COMING SEPTEMBER 2022
White Paper: The Inclusive Culture Pyramid
We live and work in an increasingly globalized and multi-cultural world, and getting to grips with how to lead and manage others who have different, views, values, experiences, lifestyles, and approaches is key to being successful.
Cultural Intelligence – Oxford Bibliographies
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is the capability to function effectively in intercultural contexts, as discussed in Earley and Ang 2003 (cited under Conceptualization of Individual-Level CQ). CQ can refer to the capability of an individual, a team, or a firm. CQ is important for most individuals and organizations because the world is diverse, and contemporary organizations recognize the value of bridging cultures for both personal and organizational success. The introduction of CQ represents a marked research shift away from focusing on cultural differences to focusing on how to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural differences. CQ is theoretically precise about what is and is not part of its construct space.
DownloadGlobal Leadership Success through Emotional and Cultural Intelligences
Describes the growing need for leaders with emotional and cultural intelligence. Advocates assessment, education, and experiential activities to help leaders develop these two types of intelligence.
Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, Measurement and Applications
With contributions from scholars around the world, this book provides the most comprehensive review of cultural intelligence research to date.
PurchaseWhat Leads to Cultural Intelligence?
Describes relationships between various types of international experience and cultural intelligence.
Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence To Adapt, Wherever You Are
Twenty-four lectures that describe and illustrate the cultural values and customs of the ten largest cultural clusters in the world.
PurchaseExpand Your Borders: Discover Ten Cultural Clusters
This book describes and provides vivid examples of the cultural values of the ten largest cultural clusters in the world. The book is an excellent source of information for improving your CQ Knowledge—your understanding of key cultural similarities and differences.
PurchaseLeading with Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success
This book applies cultural intelligence research specifically to leaders and leadership. It describes and provides examples of the four step process for improving your CQ.
PurchaseDriven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation through Diversity
This book draws upon the latest research on cultural intelligence to describe how to leverage the power of cultural differences to drive innovation. Based on extensive research and filled with examples and case studies from around the world, learn how to create a strategy for culturally intelligent innovation.
PurchaseCultural Intelligence
Describes vivid examples of three sources of cultural intelligence. Describes six steps for enhancing your cultural intelligence applied to a two and a half day training program.
Cultural Intelligence: The Essential Intelligence for the 21st Century
Describes the practical application of CQ in organizational contexts. Chapters cover making the business case for CQ, the influence of culture and cultural differences in work organizations, and recommendations for building culturally intelligent teams and organizations.
DownloadCultural Intelligence: A Pathway for Leading in a Rapidly Globalizing World
Provides a practical overview of the four-factor model of CQ and positions the four factors as four steps that can be used to enhance overall cultural intelligence.
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