Taking a new assignment in your company’s foreign office? Meeting a business associate from another country? Videoconferencing with a group of global co-workers? Negotiating a project deadline with the foreign software engineer across the hall? Learn how to apply a new set of cultural competencies to successfully cross national or cultural boundaries.
Working GlobeSmart shows how global people skills add value to global business and captures the essence of what global leadership means: the ability to create a corporate culture that builds cooperation across borders and cultures, between customers and suppliers-across every organizational line.
Working GlobeSmart shows how global people skills add value to global business and captures the essence of what global leadership means: the ability to create a corporate culture that builds cooperation across borders and cultures, between customers and suppliers-across every organizational line.
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Reviews
In a world full of leadership advice, Ernest Gundling cuts through the complexity of global leadership issues and provides a model that is understandable and engaging. Any person or organization wrestling with global effectiveness would benefit from this book.
In my position at Sumitomo 3M, I was fortunate to work closely with Ernest Gundling to build an effective personal communication style with my Japanese management team and with our employees. The insight and learnings in this book are a valuable resource for executives engaged in international and cross-cultural business leadership.
Engaging, thought-provoking. A good read even if you don't work globally. Many of the concepts apply right here at home.
Managers who understand why these skills are important find partners more likely to respond and work together for beneficial results.
Offers practical, skills-based advice. Provides a road map for developing competence at the organizational, group and interpersonal levels.
This book aims to equip business executives with maps for navigating the often choppy waters of international business.
What you may not know about conducting yourself in international business would fill a book--this one.