Freddy Duarte

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Managing
Plain English
Gets Harder
In Global Era
By PHRED DVORAK
November 5, 2007; Page B1

Computer Sciences Corp., a U.S. technology consultancy with offices in 49 countries, last year made a peculiar request to the company that teaches English to its employees around the world. CSC wanted the company to give them lessons on detecting sarcasm.

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Note about this article: Notice how it’s not all about grammar. Estonians like more authoritarian managers, while Asians tend to say “yes” when they don’t really agree. Communication is strongly dependent on culture. Avoid ambiguous statements and exercise the most appropriate type of management. Americans, Germans and Brits are sarcastic and frontal, while French are not.

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