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

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TROMPENAARS

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The authors of the international bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture broaden their focus to help you employ the diversity in your organization to foster innovation. Companies that successfully harness employees’ creativity and convert it to business innovation are leading the charge today. While this isn’t a brand-new concept, no one has explained how connections between people initially remote from each other generate innovation―until now. Riding the Waves of Innovation fills the void. The key is for leaders and managers like you to carefully address and make the most of the three entities that are most vital to your business’s approach to driving innovation throughout your global culture:
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The individuals who compose your team. Are you encouraging them to champion innovation and bring it to fruition? You’ll learn how such methodologies as the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator and Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory can be developed to avoid stereotyping your people and build effective teams. </li>
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Your teams. Are you encouraging them to innovate? Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner teach you to define the role best suited for each team member; reconcile any differences between, or amongst, them; and ensure that their work together is optimized. </li>
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Your organization. Does it maintain a global culture of innovation? The authors’ in-depth research, playfully illustrated via inventive graphs and business-world anecdotes, will teach you to ensure that adaptability, shared goals and values, reliability, and commitment are all universally acknowledged and embraced aspects of your business’s corporate culture.</li>
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Riding the Waves of Innovation: Harness the Power of Global Culture to Drive Creativity and Growth

Business Culture

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:
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<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>
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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

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

Riding the Waves of Innovation: Harness the Power of Global Culture to Drive Creativity and Growth

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