Global Leadership

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

This groundbreaking audiobook provides you with the only start-to-finish system for defining, communicating, and taking control of your leadership personal brand at work, whether you are leading yourself or leading others. Modeled after proven big-brand marketing methods, Master the Brand Called You guides you step-by-step through corporate branding techniques never before adapted for personal use.

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.

A powerful book that shows the step-by-step evolution of a new kind of global technology powerhouse, The Lenovo Way is an indispensable guide for leaders and managers who deal with strategy, innovation, branding, and HR at any kind of company. It also tells the remarkable story of how two women from very different backgrounds rose to become leaders in Lenovo's journey to the top.

The purpose of international schools' athletics programs is to best prepare its students for the next level of life, not the next level of athletics. This global playbook focuses on six key elements that all schools need to excel in in order to raise the game of their entire school: core, commitment, care, culture, competition, and communication. If you are a director, principal, teacher, coach, athletic director, or anyone involved in an international school, this book is for you!

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on globalization of organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This eBook focuses on globalization of organizations. It introduces the concept, shows how it has influenced the ways organizations do business, and discusses the effects it has on people and communities. Real companies are used as examples to help understand the impact of globalization, and the text is written for easy reader comprehension at any level. If you are interested in learning about globalization of ...

Designed to Win, written by Po Chung - the co-founder of DHL - reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist!

Tom Peters, the international best-selling author of In Search of Excellence, which has sold over one million copies, concludes his 15 definitive rules on professional excellence and why, today, they are more important than ever. The Excellence Dividend is a critical new book from one of today's leading visionaries in business. This year's winner of the Thinkers 50 Lifetime Achievement Award and the CEO Reads Lifetime Contribution to the Business Book Industry Award, Tom Peters is one of the world's most revered management gurus and global business thinkers.

Employing a geocentric perspective, Herb Cohen shows you how others often see bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. Then, by recounting his own colorful cross-cultural encounters, he takes you through the steps of this delicate dance. Afterwards, he provides a point-by-point analysis—ten tidbits and practical techniques—that you can use in reconciling all differences.

In The Peacemakers, author Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad range of historical examples, from Yitzhak Rabin's efforts for Arab-Israeli peace to Dag Hammarskjöld's effectiveness as secretary-general of the United Nations and Mahatma Gandhi's pioneering use of nonviolence as a political tool, Jentleson argues that individuals can shape policy.

The Odyssey of Self-Discovery will help you discover your own unique growth pattern and find clarity about your own leadership values. With stories and insights from thought leaders, interviews with executives, as well as author Xinjin Zhao’s own experiences of triumph and struggle as a global business executive, it speaks to early- to mid-career aspiring leaders who are looking for ways to take their leadership to the next level. Along with the insights you will gain through the leadership exercises in each chapter, you will learn lessons such as: How to know yourself better How to lead ...

Revised and Updated Second Edition Life is all about Surviving the Lessons and Growing from Them. Shot at, arrested, threatened and endangered - Author Allan J. Wind survived incredible and unexpected dangers as a global humanitarian volunteer and lived to share the powerful lessons he learned on his travels. If you're struggling to find inspiration and motivation because of the challenging events in the world, this book reminds you that there are many remarkable stories of people who do care and whose generosity is changing the world. Service is a calling - and a challenge for us. Words ...

Bob Roberts Jr. shows how present-day disciples of Jesus can find in their daily work the resources they need to transform the world for Christ. Roberts explains how ordinary Christians can embrace a kingdom perspective and watch their global connections become opportunities for fulfilling Jesus' Great Commission.

What is your organization's glass ceiling? Wondering why your organization isn't reaching its potential? You're not alone. Many leaders sense something is amiss but struggle to identify the missing link. In Build Smart, organizational leadership expert Simon A. Taylor tackles this challenge head-on.

Part of being an executive is leading companies to success. As such, when an executive is experiencing extreme and prolonged stress, anxiety, isolation, and depression - what I’m calling “executive loneliness” - they often do nothing to address it for fear of appearing unsuccessful. Not addressing it exacerbates the negative and difficult feelings to the point where it becomes more and more difficult for them to function. It takes a toll on their whole life.

100 Powerful and Insightful Quotes from some of the world's most influential past and present global female leaders.

Brand Renegades shows listeners how to develop a nontraditional success formula to disrupt and innovate their industry. Club Tattoo founders and industry disruptors Sean and Thora Dowdell share their experience as a woman-run company in the male-dominated world of tattoos and piercings. The lessons taught in this book are about learning to admit failure and learning to fail forward.

The Matrix Model Management System is a much-needed cognitive technology for cross-cultural expertise. The field-tested Matrix System is an innovative tool for developing thought leaders: story-based communication, conflict management, and wise decision making. Build your diverse team, develop thought leaders, and learn how to avoid costly culture clashes using the Matrix System.

Empty shelves, queues for petrol and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consumer goods from milk to cars to building materials. In Sold Out!, economic forecaster James Rickards (The Road to Ruin, The Death of Money) explains why the shelves are empty, who fractured the supply chain and why shortages will persist.

Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times best-selling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations.