Barnga
A Simulation Game on Cultural Clashes - 25th Anniversary Edition
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2006
Summary
Wholly revised to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Barnga is the classic simulation game for exploring communication challenges across cultures. While playing Barnga, participants experience the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently from in profoundly important ways, especially people from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931930307 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1931930309 |
| Author: | Sivasailam Thiagarajan |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Business |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 176mm x 10mm |
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Sivasailam Thiagarajan
Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan is the Resident Mad Scientist at The Thiagi Group, an organization with the mission of helping people improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. Thiagi’s clients include AT&T, Arthur Andersen, Bank of Montreal, Cadence Design Systems, Chevron, IBM, Intel, Intelsat, United Airlines, and Liberty Mutual. In addition, Thiagi has worked with more than 50 other organizations in high-tech, financial services, and management consulting areas for whom he has consulted and conducted training in such areas as rightsizing, diversity, creativity, teamwork, customer satisfaction, human performance technology, and organizational learning. Internationally recognized as an expert in multinational collaboration and active learning in organizations, Thiagi has lived in three different countries and has consulted in 21 others.
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