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Assignment ID: FG133232664

1. Do you consider your daily texting, Instagram updates, tweets, emails, and other informal writing to be “real writing”? How might such writing differ from the writing done in business?

2. Why do executives and managers spend more time listening than do workers?

3. What arguments could you give for or against the idea that body language is a science with principles that can be interpreted accurately by specialists?

4. Consider potential culture clashes in typical business situations. Imagine that businesspeople from a high-context culture, say, China, meet their counterparts from a low-context culture, Canada, for the first time to negotiate and sign a manufacturing contract. What could go wrong? How about conflicting perceptions of time?

5. A stereotype is an oversimplified perception of a behavioural pattern or characteristic applied to entire groups. For example, Germans are formal, reserved, and blunt; Americans are loud, friendly, and impatient; Asians are gracious, humble, and inscrutable. In what way are such stereotypes harmless or harmful?