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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 658.4092 EAN: 9780470822272 ISBN: 0470822279 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: June 15, 2007 Publisher: Wiley Studio: Wiley Editorial Review: Product Description: Business leaders in today’s borderless global marketplace face unprecedented challenges. The emergence of the knowledge economy has demanded that business leaders become global leaders. Successful global leaders are those with strategies for guiding and empowering a diversified workforce operating in different countries, cultures, and time zones so that they can maximize the returns from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs. Leadership Without Borders poses the question: What advice do successful global leaders have for future and current global leaders? Part 1 distills the practical insights provided by a large number of global business leaders into five key areas:
The practical suggestions in business acumen, worldview, people leadership skills, and business leadership will equip the readers to become leaders in the new borderless marketplace. Each chapter ends with a summary of the global leadership viewpoints presented, to assist you in building your own checklist of global leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors that you can start to use right away. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Leadership Without BordersJust like Doctors Without Borders provides new life in treating patients worldwide, Leadership Without Borders provides invaluable information to business leaders in an increasingly global economy. As the rise of technology has launched newly industrialized economies to grow at a rapid rate, internationally acclaimed author and speaker Ed Cohen has assembled a timely team of international executives in this exciting new book to share their global wisdom on how to navigate the global ... Read More Rating: - A global business mini MBAThis book is a very easy read, so Ed will be able to keep the attention of non business readers as well. Ed does not take the conventional sermon type approach of `I know more than you so listen to me' but proves his views in a factual yet storytelling manner with real life snippets from leaders intermittently. It's not that a lot of the traits and characteristics he talks here are unknown to readers, but this book will help readers take a culturally complex issue and look at things from other's perspective. ... Read More Rating: - Fresh and Innovative Insights on Global LeadershipThis book opens one's eyes to a new worldview. Each of us have daily opportunities to demonstrate leadership globally because we all live, work and communicate with people from all over the world. Ed Cohen shows us how to be and do it. It is a fresh perspective because it integrates state-of-the-art people and organization development principles and techniques with classic business strategies and practices. It is innovative because it shines light on a "path or road" of best practices that many organizations ... Read More Rating: - A A Pragmatic, Candid Look at Global Leadership from the InsideLeadership Without Borders is well written with anecdotes and stories providing great advice from leaders around the world who are living the global experience. The first half of the book provides candid advice and information that is immediately usable in the workplace, for all leaders. The second half of the book provides great ideas and details using specific case studies from major companies throughout the world. I especially enjoyed reading about the journey that Booz Allen Hamilton has taken to merge totally, ... Read More Rating: - How do you make global leadership real?It's a daunting task to take a challenging and complex topic like global leadership and talk about it in a way that feels not only real, but also truly achievable. Mr. Cohen has woven in just enough of his personal experiences and heart-felt stories to make this an engaging read. (The man knows EVERYONE!) And, oh by the way, you learn from him some practical and realistic techniques to focus on in comparing and contrasting "traditional" leadership with global leadership competencies. The comparison of the competencies ... Read More |
