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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Don't they know it's friday?</title>
    <subTitle>A cross-cultural guide for business and life in the Gulf</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Williams, Jeremy</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">United Arab Emirates</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Motivate Publishing</publisher>
    <dateIssued>[2012]</dateIssued>
    <edition>Second edition fully revised</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xix, 280 p. : ill., maps</extent>
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  <abstract>This best-selling handbook is an essential guide for anyone wishing to do business with Arabs, whether as a resident expatriate or as a visitor. It dispels many of the myths associated with the region and gives advice on how to behave respectfully. It not only focuses on Gulf business practices, culture and behaviour patterns, but prepares the reader for the many lifestyle changes which will be experienced and offers a simple introduction to business life in the Gulf. -- Back cover</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>The scope of this book -- General background -- Starting out in the Gulf -- Your Gulf office -- The expatriates -- Selection and briefing -- Travel -- Behaviour and attitudes -- Personal behaviour, body language -- Time and timing - the biggest frustration? -- Language, names &amp; writing -- Gulf business - how it all works -- Gulf business - bargaining and getting paid -- Gulf society - what's watsa? -- Food -- Entertaining -- Coping with visitors -- Stupid things to do in the Gulf and the desert -- Law, death, tax, insurance, bonds and banks -- Muslim life.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Jeremy Williams</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business etiquette</topic>
    <topic>Arabian Peninsula</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business enterprises</topic>
    <topic>Arabian Paninsula</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arabian Peninsula</topic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <topic>20th Century</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Etiquetas para los negocios</topic>
    <topic>Panínsula Arábiga</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Empresa comerciales</topic>
    <topic>Arabian Peninsula</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Península Arábiga</topic>
    <topic>Vida social y costumbre</topic>
    <topic>Siglo 20</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HD 58.7 W724d 2012</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781860630743</identifier>
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