please respond to both questions below using the reading or material required:

1)Which one of the five generic competitive strategies best characterizes your companys (company you work for not the company you selected for the strategic plan) strategic approach to competing successfully.  Make sure you explain your reasoning with details.  At this point, you should be able to do this especially since you know your organization better than all of us.

Organization:  American Office

Reading: Chapter 5: The Five Generic Competitive Strategies

Book: John Gamble, Arthur A. Thompson, Margaret Ann Peteraf. (2018). Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2018. (ISBN: 978-1259927638)

2) For the country you used for your Country Research Project, discuss the relative use of nonverbal behaviors, such as silent periods, interruptions, facial gazing, and touching, by people from your selected country. How does this behavior affect the negotiation process in a cross- cultural context.

Country Selected: Japan

Reading: Chapter 6: Cross-Cultural Negotiation and Decision Making

Book: Helen Deresky (2017). International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Text and Cases (9e).  ISBN: 978-0-134-37604-2. Publisher: Pearson Higher Education; Copyright 2017