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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.<br/><br/>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:<br/><br/> The personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader.<br/> The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader.<br/> Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”.<br/> The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment.<br/> Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability.<br/><br/>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. |
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From the Inside Flap<br/>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 return from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs.<br/><br/>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:<br/><br/> The personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader<br/> The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader<br/> Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”<br/> The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment<br/> Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability<br/><br/>The reader will find in this first part of the book practical suggestions for ensuring that their own personal characteristics, business acumen, worldview, people leadership skills, and business leadership skills set them apart from others and equip them for leadership 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.<br/><br/>Part 2 then explores in detail successful strategies carried out by the exceptional global leaders of eight world–class organizations:<br/><br/> Booz Allen Hamilton, USA<br/> Change Leaders, Worldwide<br/> Horasis, Switzerland<br/> Nike, Europe<br/> Satyam Computer Services, India<br/> Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore<br/> Universitas 21 Global, Singapore<br/> Vodafone, Spain<br/><br/><br/>Leadership Without Borders goes beyond theories of management to provide a solid foundation of practical and detailed guidelines and insights from those leaders who are already at the cutting edge in today’s borderless business environment.<br/>From the Back Cover<br/>Effective leadership is one of the few traits that set apart successful organizations from others. Leadership Without Borders provides insights into the behaviours that global leaders—and those in the leadership pipeline—must have to help their organizations grow and succeed in today’s knowledge economy. —Tony Bingham, President and CEO, American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), USA<br/><br/>Today’s multinational corporation is not merely a company that operates in many countries, but one that is multinational in its workforce. The winds of change, signified by and analysed in this book, are necessitating truly global leaders to be able to lead companies with operations, employees and customers around the world. And who better to write this than Ed Cohen, with his quarter century of experience, including his present assignment as a senior leader of a global India–based company. —Kiran Karnik, President, National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), India<br/><br/>In Leadership Without Borders, Ed Cohen effectively hones in on the new leadership areas critical to succeeding in the world of global business, which is becoming ever more ′virtual.′ The practical advice from leaders, who have already succeeded in this arena, goes beyond simply how these leaders deal with technology and change. —Deborah Wheelock, Principal, Global Talent Management,Mercer Human Resource Consulting, USA<br/><br/>Pick up Leadership Without Borders, and you won’t put it down unread. Its attractively written, timely and original. You’ll learn about the range of skills, in addition to business acumen, that have to be developed to make it possible for your senior people to operate as leaders at home in the global economy. Ed Cohen’s book is a must read for everybody interested in the development of a world consciousness about what it takes to do global business today. —Dr. Jonathan Story, Emeritus Professor, International Political Economy<br/>INSEAD, France<br/><br/>Leadership Without Borders provides excellent learnings for anyone leading globally or on international assignments...it presents powerful insights for all leaders.—Jens Backes, Vice President, T–Mobile, Czech Republic<br/><br/>One of the biggest challenges of leading successfully in a multinational of the 21st century is the right combination of global vision with local implementation; creating the powerful mix of global strategy with the local market requirements; embedding global values into the local company reality; and, making sure local realities are represented at multinational level. Leadership Without Borders offers good understanding of these challenges and how to go about them.—Adolfo Hernandez, Senior Vice President, Global Services, GSS Practices<br/>Sun Microsystems, Spain<br/> |
