With a client list that includes Motorola, Daewoo, AT&amp;T, and Volvo, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner are considered today’s most knowledgeable, innovative management consultants. In 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, they tap into the wisdom of high-performing leaders from around the globe—from Michael Dell to Richard Branson—who candidly discuss their own views and experiences in analyzing and solving business dilemmas. 
 More than just a prescriptive list of leadership skills, this invaluable guide uses case studies, examples, charts, tables, and graphs to show today’s business leaders how to: 
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<li> Understand—and act upon—the 7 major dilemmas of leadership </li>
<li> Identify major business dilemmas in the transnational community </li>
<li> Implement strategies for sustaining emerging entrepreneurship </li>
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21 Leaders for The 21st Century

Business & Money

Trompenaars, Fons

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

21 Leaders for the 21st Century redefines leadership. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner tap into the wisdom of high-performing leaders from around the globe, from Michael Dell to Acer9s Stan Shih and from Richard Branson to Russian politician and banker, Sergei Kiriyenko. These business giants candidly reveal their personal experiences of business dilemmas. 21 Leaders for the 21st Century uses these important insights into the nature of leadership to show today9s managers how to understand and use the seven dilemmas of leadership.

History

We are all under new pressure to produce more for less money―and in less time. Ultimately, this cannot be done unless bosses are able to―in service of their organization―bring out the best in their people. That is the essence of servant-leadership, the management philosophy originally outlined by organizational expert Robert Greenleaf in the 1970s. It’s a philosophy whose time has truly come. <ul>
<li>The mission statement of TDIndustries, a regular on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work for in America, prioritizes “intense ‘people development’ efforts, including substantial training budgets.” </li>
<li>When an error at Motorola caused $100,000 in damages to equipment, no heads rolled; instead, the responsible employee was encouraged to develop a system based on what he’d learned; all told, Motorola saved more than a million dollars. </li>
<li>When Sematech, the International Institute for Semiconductors, joined with competitors like Intel, AMD, Siemens, and Sony, the result was smarter and better business for all, via shared innovation and communication.</li>
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For such progressive companies, mere institutional power is no longer enough. Their secret is the empowerment that servant-leadership provides, and it can make the difference between the success of your organization and its downfall. With Servant-Leadership Across Cultures, you’ll come to understand how and why doing the right thing pays off for everyone―not just for your business partners, but for the world.

Servant-Leadership Across Cultures: Harnessing the Strengths of the World's Most Powerful Management Philosophy

Voerman, Ed

A leadership blueprint for managing cross-cultural issues in any M&amp;A deal In our rapidly expanding and increasingly volatile global economy, mergers and acquisitions are becoming the strategy of choice for businesses seeking to stimulate growth while managing risk. As more and more M&amp;A deals are struck between global organizations, difficult new issues involving cultural differences have arisen. 
In The Global M&amp;A Tango, international management experts Fons Trompenaars and Maarten Nijhoff Asser explain how to detect and manage these issues before they become major problems. 
Drawing on the world-renowned Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Cross-Cultural Database and Culture Compass, the authors illustrate how widely cultures can differ and, by reconciling the dilemmas created by that difference, how they can be integrated quickly, efficiently, and effectively. 
The Global M&amp;A Tango helps you meet all the challenges of cross-national M&amp;A by:
<ul>
<li>Creating common mission, vision, strategy, and values </li>
<li>Developing trust across value boundaries </li>
<li>Enabling people with different cultural perspectives to engage in valuable discussions</li>
</ul>
Change-management programs all too often ignore the culture perspectives of the individuals and groups involved--and it's often why organizations fail to realize the benefits that prompted the integration in the first place. 
With The Global M&amp;A Tango, you have everything you need to integrate two old entities into a powerful new organization poised for dramatic growth in the coming decades.

The Global M&A Tango: How to Reconcile Cultural Differences in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Partnerships

Nijhoff Asser, Maarten

Business Culture

The bestselling guide to cross-cultural leadership Since its original publication, Riding the Waves of Culture has been considered the definitive guide to one of the 21st century’s most pressing management concerns―effectively leading people and organizations in an increasingly global business environment. Today’s business landscape is barely a shadow of what it was only a few years ago, when managers’ main concerns were being aware of cultural differences and preventing embarrassments. Now, you must take it a step further to leverage cultural differences for maximum competitive advantage. The highly anticipated third edition of this business classic brings you completely up-to-date in a world transformed by radical changes in politics, society, the economy, and technology. Retaining its detailed descriptions of the underlying cultural frameworks that affect day-to-day business, Riding the Waves of Culture, Third Edition, provides new, evidence-based information and insight on:
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M&amp;A―how dealing with (national and corporate) cultural differences can enhance and improve chances of success in these often risky endeavors </li>
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An Increasingly Diverse Business World―including improved and expanded measurements of competences, dilemmas and their reconciliations, servant leadership, innovation, and remote-team effectiveness </li>
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Cultural Convergence―analysis of changes in the past 25 years bringing the world closer to a single “global village”</li>
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The ability to lead effectively in a global business environment is perhaps the most valuable skill anyone can bring to an organization. The most thoroughly researched and highly respected resource of its kind, Riding the Waves of Culture doesn’t just help you stay afloat in today’s diverse work environment; it provides the knowledge you need to seize the advantage and compete for the long run.

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 3/E

Hampden-Turner, Charles

International

The one-stop resource to 100+ powerful management methods 100+ Management Models offers a quick overview of the key features and potential applications of each of the most important models in nine different categories: sustainability, innovation, strategy, diversity, customers, human resources, benchmarking, leadership, and implementation. Each section concludes with a summary of the key dilemmas that tend to emerge from the particular function, along with analysis of potential solutions. Fons Trompenaars is a world expert on international management and the author of the global bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture. He is a recipient of the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Piet Hein Coebergh is an expert in formulating and communicating corporate strategy. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, and managing consultant at Coebergh Communications &amp; PR.

100+ Management Models: How to Understand and Apply the World's Most Powerful Business Tools

Coebergh, Piet Hein

With the stunning public cases of leadership gone awry, the search is on for a type of leadership that incorporates human values in an otherwise exploitative business world. In this book, the authors take the scalpel and address deeply ingrained nefarious management theory, and show the way to healing, opening fresh fields of ambition, new degrees of passion, and creativity. A synthesis of the best Western thinking and Eastern wisdom teachings, the book introduces "The Chakras of Leadership," a model of leadership that differentiates seven levels of human energy use.

The Enlightened Leader: An Introduction to the Chakras of Leadership

Ten Hoopen, Peter

wiley

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new market's local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, socio-political system, and cultural system. This book eases this transitory process, showing the emerging breed of international managers how to build the skills, sensitivity, and cultural awareness needed to establish and sustain management effectiveness across cultural borders.

Trompenaars, Alfons

Irwin Professional_Pub

Many managers understand that cultural differences affect the process of doing business, but many underestimate by just how much. This book aims to dispel the idea that there is only one way to manager and encourages readers to get to know their own culture before doing business with others. The author explores the cultural extremes and the incomprehension that can arise when doing business across cultures - even when people are working for the same company. The book explains that there are five key factors or orientations that affect how people all deal with each other, do business and manage. The goal is the "transnational organization" - one in which the company can take from each country what is best, and for those who are sensitive to these differences, the opportunities are enormous. With many practical examples and case studies, this book brings insights to the dilemma of reconciling corporate consistency with local conditions as business life rapidly internationalizes. In 1991 Fons Trompenaars was awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business

Economist Books

Rewarding Performance Globally: Reconciling the Global-Local Dilemma

This book provides professionals with an easy reference resource for successfully implementing a performance management system in a multinational company. Providing research-based strategies for reconciling the global-local dilemma is the focus of the book.  The authors explore principles drawn from extensive research in human resources and cross-cultural management. They focus on the critical process of defining, measuring, and rewarding performance in multinational organizations, emphasizing the importance of managing a workforce effectively in today’s highly competitive, globalized environment. A real-world case study is woven throughout the book to illustrate further the challenges organizations face when developing strategies, facilitating equivalent and consistent treatment, and contributing to the global mobility of talent.  Rewarding Performance Globally will benefit senior-level HR professionals, and will also interest students of international management, human resource management, and cross-cultural management.

Rewarding Performance Globally

GREENE, ROBERT

Routledge

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21 Leaders for The 21st Century

21 Leaders for The 21st Century

Servant-Leadership Across Cultures: Harnessing the Strengths of the World's Most Powerful Management Philosophy

The Global M&A Tango: How to Reconcile Cultural Differences in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Partnerships

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 3/E

100+ Management Models: How to Understand and Apply the World's Most Powerful Business Tools

The Enlightened Leader: An Introduction to the Chakras of Leadership

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business

Rewarding Performance Globally