Jeremy Comfort, Peter Franklin

The Mindful International Manager (eBook, ePUB)

How to Work Effectively Across Cultures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Mindful International Manager tackles the management situations that international managers have to handle every day. Accessible and jargon-free it explains how to clarify local vs. international roles, support and develop a team, organize and coordinate boundaries of time and distance, and win commitment toward common goals. The authors, both interculturalists, include exercises and best practice advice and the experiences and insights of practising international managers. They combine their practical approach with great depth of insight into the challenges of working and managing internationally and include the results of new research findings and cutting-edge case studies on topics such as leadership, global nomads, virtual teams, coaching and mentoring across cultures and decision-making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780749469832
• Artikelnr.: 40430131

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Comfort founded York Associates, UK, nearly thirty years ago with the mission to develop people internationally. He has trained and coached hundreds of individuals and teams who face the ever more complex challenges of working internationally.
Professor Peter Franklin lectures in intercultural communication and intercultural management and advises and trains many corporate and institutional clients - he focuses on international change management and intercultural leadership competence.

Inhaltsangabe

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: Managing internationally;
  • Chapter - 02: Cultures;
  • Chapter - 03: Individuals;
  • Chapter - 04: Situations;
  • Chapter - 05: Direction;
  • Chapter - 06: Organization and change;
  • Chapter - 07: Roles;
  • Chapter - 08: Support;
  • Chapter - 09: Feedback;
  • Chapter - 10: Representing;
  • Chapter - 11: Conflict;
  • Chapter - 12: Cooperation;
  • Chapter - 13: Leading

Rezensionen

"Conversational and immediately accessible to anyone who is new to the content... great care has been taken in these pages to talk the way people talk in the real world and to relate theory to practice." Craig Storti, writer and cross-cultural trainer, author of The Art of Crossing Cultures, Speaking of India and many more bestsellers