Erin Meyer’s work focuses on how the world's most successful managers navigate the complexities of cultural differences in a global environment. She is the author of the international best-selling ...

Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like and even suffocating. Globally, ...

Understanding and anticipating this complexity is what separates struggling expat leaders from those who thrive.

This excerpt adapted with permission from "The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business" (2014) by INSEAD professor Erin Meyer, from PublicAffairs.

Americans are the most explicit or low-context culture there is (low-context meaning ... East Asian countries represent the other extreme. Meyer offers strategies for negotiating these differences ...