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Introducing Story-Strategic Methods: Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
Introducing Story-Strategic Methods: Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
Introducing Story-Strategic Methods: Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
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The purpose of Introducing Story-Strategic Methods is to awaken us in the cross-cultural context. Our natural tendency is to be asleep to our own cultural values and core worldview assumptions. This tendency applies as well to our expectations in the cross-cultural context. For example, in what ways would a "justice" pattern of culture orient our speech and behavior? To what degree is a "justice" pattern of culture different from an "honor" pattern of culture? The book asserts that culture matters in effective communication. Going further, to what degree does a story told from the Bible nullify the power of culture? Often we assume that the biblical story trumps culture. It does not. The book affirms rigorously that culture is much more powerful than we first suppose. If in fact, culture trumps the biblical story. Therefore, understanding and skills are required for effective engagement across cultures. Strategic storytelling is a twelve-step methodology that addresses the problems of miscommunication and syncretism that plague the cross-cultural context. It offers a step-by-step solution that promises success. Insights are firmly rooted in Scripture and equally grounded in empirical research from the social sciences. The stories told throughout the book are true. The answers are compelling.
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Release dateMar 17, 2017
ISBN9781532613173
Introducing Story-Strategic Methods: Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement
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Robert Strauss

Robert Strauss is owner of Global Perspectives Consulting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. GPC clients excel in complex global marketplaces through the acquisition of cultural competence. Clients include the United States Department of Agriculture and City of Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department. Strauss is Lead Faculty of the courses Program Development and Accountability and Research Methods in the Anderson College of Business at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Also, he is President of Worldview Resource Group, a not-for-profit organization that equips cross-cultural workers in a story-based worldview approach to mission. WRG works with agencies located in India, Southeast Asia, North Africa, Western Canada, Mexico, and all of Ibero-America. Strauss is a member of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. He is the author of Introducing Story-Strategic Methods: Twelve Steps toward Effective Engagement, published by Wipf & Stock in March 2017. He and his wife live near Denver, Colorado.

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