Barnga by Sivasailam Thiagarajan (.ePUB)
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Barnga: A Simulation Game on Cultural Clashes – 25th Anniversary Edition by Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Author), Raja Thiagarajan
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Overview: “Quite simply, Thiagi is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world.” – Glenn Parker, author of Cross-Functional Teams and Team Players and Teamwork
Wholly revised to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Barnga is the classic simulation game for exploring communication challenges across cultures. While playing Barnga, participants experience the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently, one from the other, in profoundly important ways, especially people from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences if they want to function effectively in a cross-cultural group.
The “game” is deceptively simple: participants, broken up into several small groups, play a simple card, never knowing that each group has been given a subtly different set of rules to play by, nor that those rules will change yet again as the game develops and groups of players are reconfigured. Conflicts quickly begin to occur as players move from group to group, simulating real cross-cultural encounters, where people initially believe they share the same understanding of the basic rules and learn to their dismay and confusion that they do not.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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