Winning with Transglobal Leadership: How to Find and Develop Top Global Talent to Build World-Class Organizations

by Sharkey, Linda; Razi, Nazneen; Cooke, Robert; Barge, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780071790512
• ISBN10: 0071790519
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-27
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Recruit, develop, and train high-performance global leadership to create a powerful competitive advantage for your business As businesses become more multinational, the need for leadership talent that travels across borders has never been greater. Presenting a wealth of original, previously unpublished research, Winning the Global Leadership Challengeis the handbook on high-performance global leadership that explains what you need to know about the role of leadership in the modern global organization, and how you can source the leaders that are the best fit for your global growth strategies. Drawing on decades of collective experience as practitioners, researchers, and consultants, Linda Sharkey, a senior HR executive at GE and HP, and a global team of author-experts identify the five critical dimensions of global leaders; define what each dimension looks like in action; and clearly illustrate how to assess an organization, its business units, and its leaders for global capability. Finally, the book shows how to recruit, retain and develop global leaders at all levels. Easy to read, and simple to apply, this book's insight, approaches, and tools provide a cogent overview and proven framework for building effective leaders for the global organization of today. Includes in-depth coverage of all aspects of global leadership Integrates tools and techniques for assessing, selecting, developing, and retaining global leaders Co-author Robert A. Cooke is the developer of the Organizational Culture Inventory and several other surveys used in organizational research

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. x
The Current State of Global Leadership Talent and Why Global Leaders Matter for Business Success
Survival in a New Global World: Are You Ready?	p. 5
Why Global Talent Is So Important, Yet in Short Supply	p. 27
The Foundation of the Transglobal Leader: The Six Facets of Intelligence Necessary for Transglobal Leadership	p. 43
What We Did, Why We Did it, and What We Learned	p. 77
The Nuts and Bolts of Transglobal Leaders: What they Do, How They Think, and How They Interact with Others to Build Sustainable Businesses
The Behavioral Dimensions of Transglobal Leaders: What Sets Them Apart?	p. 115
Traditional Diversity Versus TransgLobal Diversity: The New Order and Debate	p. 153
Assessing and Developing Your Transglobal Leadership Capabilities
Where Are You on the Map of Global Capability?	p. 197
Developing Global Capability	p. 217
Are You a Transglobal Leader?	p. 243
Notes	p. 257
About the Authors	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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