Global Business Management

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

Winning Across Global Markets examines how 145-year-old Nokia grew from a paper mill in Finland to a multinational telecommunications leader. Why are Nokia's lessons critical for other companies and industries? While multinationals based in large countries benefit from inherent advantages - such as a home base that often accounts for 30 to 50 percent of their revenues - multinationals based in smaller countries such as Nokia, enjoy no such competitive edge. Nokia, in fact, generates less than 1% of its revenues in its home base.

In a globalized world, where multinational companies have extensive power over millions of people, building positive organizational performance requires global leaders with virtues. Organizations, especially multinational ones, may be crucial engines of social and economic progress; global leaders' virtues and character strengths may be strong drivers of such an endeavor. Drawing on the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement, this book aims to provide a holistic approach to the virtues of leaders.

Neuroscience research is producing an almost constant stream of new discoveries that are unlocking the secrets of how our brains work. For those of us directly involved in this research of the human brain, it is a very exciting time. However, very few people outside of the neuroscience community understand these discoveries well enough to take advantage of them or apply them to their own lives in a way that gets meaningful results

A proven system to develop your Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ), with success strategies and inspiring examples from around the world. The business leaders of today face extraordinary complexity, rapid change, and increasing diversity in their markets and workforces. And yet more than 90 per cent of global executives identify cross-cultural effectiveness as their biggest challenge. This audiobook gives you the tools and confidence to transform your business, personal, and financial performance.

Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies. The broad-based reaction to this chaotic, unmanageable assault has been to retrench, and to focus on immediate, controllable decisions. In the process, we lose sight of the horizon. More dangerous still, is the shift we've seen from value creation to wealth creation, in a transaction-based society in which the "deal" is more important than the value it drives or the relationships it is based on.

How and why do some entrepreneurs succeed where others fail? The answer is actually very simple. Everything you have in your life is a result of the choices you and you alone have made on a daily basis...and just prior to making that choice, you had a thought. This book is all about your thinking processes. It will show you a tried and tested formula that you can apply to succeed as an entrepreneur - as well as the thinking (and actions) required to implement it!

As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book.

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

Leading in the Global Matrix offers a real-world perspective of working in a matrix while using examples from the authors’ actual coaching of business leaders. This book tackles the critical, “unspoken” dimensions that are often underestimated and unaddressed in the global business world, helping listeners learn specific skills and insights that can help them be successful in the trenches; how to deal with day-to-day realities - which include complexity, pressure, and demand to deliver results with speed; what to do, why it’s important, and how to accomplish each task.

The Covid crisis has been a proving ground of sorts for business leaders, forcing them to adapt to new realities and unprecedented uncertainty. Leading through it has often been painful, but it’s also produced valuable lessons about rallying employees, navigating global pressures, and finding opportunity amid hardship. Leadership in Crisis profiles leaders of a range of business from auto giants like Telsa and General Motors to Moderna, the upstart that developed a Covid-19 vaccine, to a small grocery store in North Carolina.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed best seller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Ken Pasternak’s distinguished career as a banker, management consultant, executive educator, author, and keynote speaker has provided a wealth of experience with people and organizations internationally. In this book, he shares some of the most memorable stories from his wide-ranging travels and his many encounters with celebrities, and draws out truths that still apply today in both life and business. From leadership to life skills, culture to kindness, these are stories that will make you laugh and make you think, and might just change your perspective on life.

For thousands of years, humanity was ruled by Kings and Queens through bloodlines and rituals. Later governments and social insurgents brought forth unity for democracy and revolutions. Today, humanity distrusts the political forces which govern, and royalty is a dying breed. Yet still, 99.99% of humans are looking for someone, anyone whom they can follow, learn from, be inspired by, and trust in.

The Age of Pluralism is a clarion call for pluralism in an age of increasing tribal and nationalist defensiveness. To drive this multicultural world, David Clive Price offers the leaders of the future a global leadership toolkit - for increasing teamwork and innovation, and for leveraging diversity of generations, backgrounds, and cultures.

Cuando te pones a mirar en retrospectiva tu vida, analizando las metas que has logrado y todas las que aún no o las que tienes a futuro. ¿Te haz puesto a pensar alguna vez en cual es la razón por la que no tienes una vida plagada de éxitos? ¿Por qué aún no te has convertido en lo que siempre has querido ser? En la mayoría de las ocasiones las razones son las mismas: limitaciones mentales, malos hábitos, permitir influencias exteriores y otros muchas que se interponen entre tú y tus metas.

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners.

Many executives overlook the single-most critical aspect of leadership. Have you? The most important driver of overall success is your own self-leadership. Without it, your career may stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential.

A fun yet factual guide to thriving not only in Silicon Valley but in the emerging Global Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has become synonymous with big ideas, start-ups, and inventing the future. But today the magic of Silicon Valley has gone viral and global. From Austin to Boston, from Shanghai to Dubai, a Global Silicon Valley is emerging.

Brave enough to step into the cage with the Tiger? Written by best-selling author Todd Shuler comes the most entertaining and insightful business and career management book you'll ever read. The Tiger Tamer is both a leadership fable and a motivational guide that will help understand your business world and how it impacts you. Your business is that tiger which needs to be tamed and Todd Shuler will show you how - without becoming the tiger's lunch.