In today’s “flat” world, you must get the best from teams that span not just offices, but continents: teams of unprecedented diversity and complexity. Leading those teams, you must deliver better results faster and with fewer resources. Conventional management techniques just won’t do the job anymore. You need a radically new approach to management: one that’s more fluid, more agile, and far less hierarchical.    How to Manage in a Flat World teaches you that new approach. Drawing on hard-won lessons from today’s most successful global managers, this book covers both high-level concepts and hands-on techniques. You’ll find best practices for everything from building trust to choosing the right times to travel…even maintaining a healthy work/life balance when you’re leading a team that’s operating 24/7!  The new flat world has both high levels of interconnectivity facilitated by technology and high levels of dispersion within teams and companies, with colleagues often working in different offices, or even different parts of the world. This demands a new set of skills and tools of you as a manager. How to Manage in a Flat World gives you the ten strategies you need to be a high-performing manager. The key is to communicate and collaborate closely with your team, even if you don't see them very often. This practical book includes interviews with managers around the world, and will help the reader make the best use of technology; establish a work-life balance for yourself; know when you need to have face-to-face meetings; lead and motivate your team, wherever they are; create a culture of trust and motivation that will lead to higher performance; and prepare and adapt to change so that you are not left behind.

How to Manage in a Flat World: 10 Strategies to Get Connected to Your Team Wherever They Are

Business & Money

Bloch, Susan

Whiteley, Philip

International

Ft Press

How to MANAGE in a FLAT WORLD 10 Strategies to Get Connected to Your Team Wherever They Are Lead Winning Global Teams in Today’s Flat Businesses! Manage, motivate, and communicate with teams that span continents Master all the tools available to global managers, from technology to travel Based on exclusive interviews with dozens of successful global managers In today’s “flat” world, you must get the best from teams that span not just offices, but continents: teams of unprecedented diversity and complexity. Leading those teams, you must deliver better results faster and with fewer resources. Conventional management techniques just won’t do the job anymore. You need a radically new approach to management: one that’s more fluid, more agile, and far less hierarchical. How to Manage in a Flat World teaches you that new approach. Drawing on hard-won lessons from today’s most successful global managers, this book covers both high-level concepts and hands-on techniques. You’ll find best practices for everything from building trust to choosing the right times to travel…even maintaining a healthy work/life balance when you’re leading a team that’s operating 24/7! Susan Bloch has spent the past decade helping leading enterprises build leadership capability and effective teams. She has coached business leaders in manufacturing, financial services, construction, retailing, telecommunications, and other industries. Her clients have included Reuters, Prudential, Shell, Unilever, Philips, Sony, BT, Barclays, Standard Chartered, and Accenture. Bloch holds an M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University, and is a fellow of Ashoka, a global charity that supports social entrepreneurs. Philip Whiteley is a freelance author and journalist specializing in management. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including Unshrink the People (with Max Mckeown). He contributes regularly to leading business publications, and writes a weekly column on executive compensation for The Times of London. Together, Bloch and Whiteley previously authored Complete Leadership. In a flat world, managers are on the front lines. It is managers who must bring together individuals, teams, and resources from all over the planet. It is managers who must work through differences in language and culture to drive quantifiable results, and be held accountable for those results. Stripped of yesterday’s hierarchical, unquestioned authority, it is managers who must earn the right to lead, every single day. How to Manage in a Flat World gives you a complete blueprint for succeeding as a manager and leader in today’s radically flattened and globalized business environment. You’ll learn realistic, proven techniques for leading and motivating teams, wherever they are…using technology and travel more effectively…creating cultures of trust and motivation…coping with ambiguity while providing clarity…and building a balanced, fulfilled life for yourself at the very same time. • Does culture still matter? Yes, but… Discover the “common reference points” that are emerging alongside traditional culture • Bullet trains and mules Integrate the super-fast pace of business and technology with the slower evolution of humans • When there’s no substitute for travel Make the most of face-to-face interactions on a tight budget • Keeping a life, keeping the “real you” Improve your work/life balance in a flat, global business environment

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

Thanks to the internet and a globalising economy, businesses today are often stretched across different locations and different time zones, and increasingly communicate online rather than face-to-face. For a manager, it is very hard to manage and motivate a team that spans continents. Managing in a Flat World gives today's manager much-needed advice on how to communicate, manage and motivate in the flattened company and how to operate effectively in the flat world. Within this book, authors Susan Bloch and Philip Whitely expose insights from in-depth interviews and research with managers and leaders in global businesses to show the successes, struggles and triumphs amid a constant battle for balance within a changing world, based on technology. You can learn from their experience how best to collaborate as teams and groups within the flat economy, how to equip yourself as a team leader or team member with fresh ideas on ways of working with your colleagues so as to make the most of the advantages that the networked world can offer.   

How to Manage in a Flat World: Get connected to your team - wherever they are (Financial Times Series)

Pearson Education Canada

As employment patterns and management structures have changed, people who may have once spent their entire career climbing one corporate ladder are suddenly discovering that the ladder has disappeared. This turbulent environment means that individuals are now having to take more responsibility for the development of their own professional growth. Employability tackles this crucial need for active career management by helping individuals acquire the skills necessary to achieve lifelong career success. Packed with detailed case studies, practical tips, and activity exercises, this book demonstrates how you can effectively deal with any obstacles you may encounter on the road to professional success. A vast range of relevant issues are covered, including: mapping a career path; improving your learning skills; the art of self-promotion; tackling interviews; managing stress; reviewing goals. By participating in the activities presented in Employability, you will learn how to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, develop strategic goals and, ultimately, package yourself in such a way that lifelong employability becomes the reality. In Employability, Susan Bloch and Terry Bates share their wealth of experience of coaching people at all levels to be successful and effective in their jobs and careers. Between them they have published over 40 articles on career development and related topics.

EMPLOYABILITY (FAST TRACK MBA SERIES)

Economics

Kogan Page, Ltd.

Everybody can be a better leader, a more complete leader. Everybody can use more of their potential to inspire and empower others to achieve better results. Great leadership isn't formulaic, nor is it easy, but it is learnable. This book helps you assess your current leadership abilities, across a whole range of skills - and then shows you how to improve them. It will help you understand your team's perception of you, rate your performance on the "leadership scorecard" and coach yourself to better leadership skills.

Complete Leadership: A Practical Guide For Developing Your Leadership Talents

Momentum Wcze

Travels With My Grief: A personal journey of love, loss and recovery

Travel

Travel Writing

Mensch Publishing

Travels with My Grief: A Personal Journey of Love, Loss and Recovery

Parenting & Relationships

RedDoor Press

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