Ep. 276: Richard Lewis Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Richard Lewis, a cross-cultural expert who has been studying language and communication his entire career. He's traveled to 130+ countries and speaks eleven different languages.
The topics are his books When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures and When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team Successfully.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How Lewis' love affair with language started
- The best way to start learning a language
- Travel as a "magic elixir" of sorts
- The Lewis model
- Cultural differences in language, and what Lewis means by linear-active, multi-active, and reactive
- The idea of losing face in the context of cross-cultural communication
- Microculture and macroculture
- Cross-cultural teams vs. homogenous teams
- Normal and abnormal in a cultural context
- Paperwork and punctuality in different cultures
- Why the linear-active person confronts with logic, the multi-active person confronts emotionally, and the reactive person is never confronting
- Why there's much more to making a deal than just quantity and price
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | Today in the show I have Richard Lewis. |
| 0:36.1 | Richard Lewis is a cross-cultural expert. |
| 0:39.8 | Having traveled to 130 countries plus, I think he speaks 11 languages, he's been at this |
| 0:46.8 | his entire career, language communication. |
| 0:51.1 | Now, some might say, Mike, why do you want to have a language expert on your trend following |
| 0:57.7 | trading show? |
| 0:59.8 | I love to have trend following traders on my show, and that's never going to stop. |
| 1:04.8 | But we live in a complete world. |
| 1:07.1 | We live in a real world. |
| 1:10.0 | You're not just a trend following robot. |
| 1:13.6 | There are many, many facets to life. |
| 1:17.2 | And my guest today brings one of those facets that we can't ignore, which is the |
| 1:23.6 | ability to communicate cross-culturally. |
| 1:27.4 | Richard has developed a model that classifies cultural norms into linear active, |
| 1:32.8 | multi-active, and reactive, or some combination. |
| 1:36.7 | This was a huge light bulb for me. |
| 1:39.7 | Such a great aha moment. |
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