The Accidental Business Nomad

A Survival Guide for Working Across a Shrinking Planet

By: Kyle Hegarty

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

"This is the Indiana Jones of international business." (Csaba Toth)

An unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a post-globalisation world. Each story gives fascinating insights and lessons into the cultural realities and unexpected surprises of modern globalisation.

The Accidental Business Nomad is for anyone working in a more global environment and who is looking to gain critical insights and communications skills needed for a shrinking world.

As managing director of TSL Marketing's Leadership Nomad group, Kyle Hegarty has deciphered the culture code of doing business in Asia and the fastest growing markets. Hegarty reports on his triumphs and failures, including tales where unexpected lessons abound. The result is a no-holds-barred, gritty and unvarnished guide to doing business across cultures.

Listeners will learn:

• Why up to 70 percent of international ventures fail due to cultural issues and how to avoid becoming a casualty
• How to navigate the invisible language of cultural misunderstandings
• Cross-cultural communications skills everyone in business needs to know
• The art and science of personality profiling and quick short-cuts to understanding people
• What outsourced call centers can teach us about the future of global communication
• How to find inspiration and innovation in the most unlikely of places.

©2020 Kyle D. Hegarty (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Perfect for expats coming to South East Asia

Lot’s of practical examples about cultural differences and lot’s of humour too. Very enjoyable reading.

If you work or work in Asia reading this is a must !

I will be recommending this book to as many people as I can who currently work or will soon work in Asia. This was insightful, well written and had me laughing out loud at many points. The stories at times were very funny mostly because I felt like they were my experiences and that maybe Kyle had been spying on me … how can he know what is happening to me??? Whilst I have grown and made a lot of progress I still feel frustrated and often ask why am I here, you hired me for my experience and yet no one is listening ….

Reading this book has really opened my eyes to some gaps in my skills that I’ll be putting some effort into addressing over the coming few months or maybe years depending on how many times I forget and go back to my old habits. THANK YOU, Kyle, what a great gift you’ve given us expats out there, please do yourself a favour and get a hold of a copy of this book. I did the audiobooks option, as I like to walk and listen and the stories are funnier I feel when someone’s reading them to you… Enjoy!

Working with other cultures, here is THE book.

I have to tell you this book made me laugh and cry (with laughter) at some of the stories, while nodding my head at ALL the mistakes I have made living and working in another country. There’s only two books which have served as a Rosetta Stone for my career and this is one of them. If you find yourself working with people in another country and slowly losing the will to live, then you HAVE to buy this book. It will be on heavy rotation for me for sometime until I can apply the lessons in my everyday work. Thanks Kyle, you’re a star.