"The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity undreamed of by science fiction writers fifty years ago. What is it that continues to drive people apart when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest? Are we as a species doomed to perpetual misunderstanding and conflict? Find out in Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind." "A veritable atlas of cultural values, it is based on cross-cultural research conducted in seventy countries for more than thirty years. At the same time, it describes a revolutionary theory of cultural relativism and its applications in a range of professions. Fully updated and rewritten for the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

Subtitle on cover: "Intercultural cooperation and its importance for survival".

1. Introduction : the rules of the social game -- 2. More equal than others -- 3. I, we, and they -- 4. He, she, and (s)he -- 5. What is different is dangerous -- 6.Yesterday, now, or later? -- 7. Pyramids, machines, markets, and families: organizing across nations -- 8. The elephant and the stork: organizational cultures -- 9. Intercultural encounters -- 10. Surviving in a multicultural world.