Passport Germany

Your Pocket Guide to German Business, Customs, and Etiquette

By Roland Flamini
ISBN 1-885073-20-8
US$6.95
96 Pages
Passport Germany contains detailed information about business practices, negotiating styles, customs, etiquette, government, view of foreigners, and much more in Germany. International businesspeople will discover a wealth of hard-to-find information to help them break through cultural barriers and ease their fears about doing business in Germany. The book is attractive, portable, easy to read, and short enough to digest in one sitting.

Table of Contents

Overview

Chapter 1: Country Facts

Chapter 2: The Germans
Chapter 3: Cultural Stereotypes
Chapter 4: Regional Differences

Business Environment

Chapter 5: Government & Business

Chapter 6: The Work Environment
Chapter 7: Women in Business
Chapter 8: Making Connections
Chapter 9: Strategies for Success
Chapter 10: Time
Chapter 11: Business Meetings
Chapter 12: Negotiating with the Germans
Chapter 13: Business Outside the Law

Customs & Etiquette

Chapter 14: Names & Greetings

Chapter 15: Communication Styles
Chapter 16: Customs
Chapter 17: Dress & Appearance
Chapter 18: Reading the Germans
Chapter 19: Entertaining
Chapter 20: Socializing

Additional Information

Chapter 21: Basic German Phrases

Chapter 22: Correspondence
Chapter 23: Useful Numbers
Chapter 24: Books and Internet Addresses

About the Author

Roland Flamini has been writing about Germany and German affairs for nearly two decades. He was bureau chief of Time Magazine in Bonn from 1980-1984, when the planned deployment of American medium-range missiles in West Germany bitterly divided the nation (and contributed to the political defeat of Helmut Schmidt and Social Democrats and the emergence of Chencellor Helmut Kohl).

He covered the first German election following reunification, accompanying both Kohl and Willy Brandt on the campaign trail in East Germany. In 1992, he became a member of the Washington D.C. based Atlantic Council's two year study of the country's post-reunification.

Flamini is the author of several books, including Sovereign: Elizabeth II and the Windsor Dynasty (Dell/Bantam, U.K., 1990) and Thalberg: the Last Tycoon and the World of M.G.M. (Crown, 1994). He is currently working on a biography of the military theorist Karl von Clausewitz.