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Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World is unavailable, but you can change that!

As twenty-first-century society grows increasingly complex, pluralistic, and multicultural, it behooves Christians to communicate effectively between and among diverse populations. Research indicates that missions often fail because of cultural collision and lack of empathy and understanding between different peoples. David Livermore proposes a meta model—based on sound research principles and...

people deal with one another, with environmental circumstances, and with time. The six values we’re going to explore are identity, hierarchy, risk, time, communication, and achievement. We’ll look at how different cultures and subcultures respond to the issues embedded in these values. Every cultural grouping interfaces with these values somewhat differently, and each of us as individuals falls somewhere along the continuum described for each value. Depending on the varied cultures in which we’ve
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