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We are all foreigners now. Working life entails some degree of intercultural interaction for most people today: a French investment manager from a development bank visiting start-ups in Africa; an American kindergarten teacher educating children whose parents have brought them from Pakistan; a Brazilian leading tax partner rapidly putting together an international team for a global audit.
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Brinkmann, U., van Weerdenburg, O. (2014). Intercultural Readiness: Translating Talent into Competence. In: Intercultural Readiness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346988_2
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