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13 unusual facts about Fons Trompenaars


Charles Hampden-Turner

1997, with Fons Trompenaars, Mastering the infinite game: how East Asian values are transforming business practices.

1993, with Fons Trompenaars, The seven cultures of capitalism: value, systems for creating wealth in the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

2000, with Fons Trompenaars, Building cross-cultural competence: how to create wealth from conflicting values.

2001, with Fons Trompenaars, 21 leaders for the 21st century: how innovative leaders manage in the digital age.

1997, with Fons Trompenaars, Riding the waves of culture: understanding cultural diversity in business.

While at Shell he met his partner of thirty years Fons Trompenaars.

His prolific publication continues, with bestseller ‘Riding the Waves of Culture’ (1997) – now passed 180,000 sales and in its thirteenth language (Bulgarian), and ‘Managing People Across Cultures’ (2004), both authored with Fons Trompenaars.

Fons Trompenaars

Cross-cultural management textbook: Lessons from the world leading experts, Introduction by Edgar H. Schein with Charles Hampden-Turner, Meredith Belbin et al.

Subsequently, In 1999 Business magazine ranked him as one of the top top 5 management consultants next to Michael Porter, Tom Peters and Edward de Bono.

Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business with Charles Hampden-Turner

Trompenaars' model of national culture differences is a framework for cross-cultural communication applied to general business and management, developed by Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner.

In 1989 together with Charles Hampden-Turner he founded and directed the consultancy firm Centre for International Business Studies, working for such companies as BP, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, Honeywell.

Managing People Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series) with Charles Hampden-Turner


Krauthammer

Among the main modern influences of Krauthammer, we find the systems approach and methodologies, and theorists like Fons Trompenaars, Marshall Rosenberg and Peter Senge.