Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
• Published by: Wiley June 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470822279
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470822272
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

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 personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader.
• The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader.
• Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”.
• The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment.
• Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability.

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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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.

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 personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader
• The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader
• Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”
• The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment
• Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability

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.

Part 2 then explores in detail successful strategies carried out by the exceptional global leaders of eight world-class organizations:

• Booz Allen Hamilton, USA
• Change Leaders, Worldwide
• Horasis, Switzerland
• Nike, Europe
• Satyam Computer Services, India
• Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
• Universitas 21 Global, Singapore
• Vodafone, Spain

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.

Reader Reviews
Effective leadership is one of the few traits that sets apart successful organizations from others. Leadership Without Borders provides insights into the behaviors 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) 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 a good understanding of these challenges and how to go about them. -- Adolfo Hernandez, Senior Vice President, Global Services, GSS Practices, Sun Microsystems, Spain In Leadership Without Borders, Ed Cohen effectively hones 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 A great challenge for leaders during the next five years will be ensuring effectiveness among international teams, a consequence of the current flow of immigrations from one country to another across the globe. Leaders need to know the international "lessons learned" to be successful and Leadership without Borders provides a "kit of clues" to prepare for this new style of global leadership. -- Antonio Rubio, Consulting Partner Director, Overlap Consultores, Spain 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 analyzed 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 Smart leaders are worrying about what the shift to a global playing field means. Are global leaders different? Is leadership development different? This book says YES,adding experience and anecdote to what it means to be a global leader. -- Allison Rossett, Professor of Educational Technology, San Diego State University, United States Leadership Without Borders is coming along at the perfect time and Ed Cohen is excellently positioned to give global leaders the information they need to deal with the pace and scope of the changes they face everyday. Heis consistently at the cutting edge of change and innovation and this book helps us with the complexities we all face. -- Marty Seldman, Ph.D., Co-author, Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success, United States Leadership Without Borders is a must read for any leader looking to succeed in today's global economy. Ed Cohen has gathered and synthesized a collection of engaging real world examples and practical insights that will help you establish new perspectives about what it takes to succeed as a global business leader. -- Richard Chang, CEO, Richard Chang Associates, Inc., and Author of The Passion Plan at Work and Performance Scorecards, United States 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 In Leadership Without Borders, today's global leaders finally have a proven roadmap for managing the unprecedented cultural, geographic, and communication differences that characterize the modern corporation. -- Andrew Sobel, Author, Clients for Life and Making Rain, United States Leadership Without Borders provides well researched insights into the nuances of successful global leadership. An essential read for anyone who leads, or plans to lead, on the global stage. -- Dianna Anderson, Vice President Leadership Coaching, MetrixGlobal, LLC, Co-author of Coaching That Counts, United States Leadership Without Borders tackles critical issues - which until now have mostly been neglected - around global leadership capabilities, and how organization's develop such capabilities in their top management. -- Scott Saslow, Founder and Executive Director, Institute of Executive Development, United States As someone who consults with business and political leaders throughout the world on important negotiations and conflict situations, I have unique opportunities to see what qualities make some leaders more effective and successful than others. Ed Cohen's pioneering and comprehensive work identifies these distinguishing traits and makes them accessible to everyone, making Leadership without Borders a must-read for anyone hoping to compete in today's global economy. -- Michael Rosenthal, Managing Partner, Consensus, United States