Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from World-Class Leaders
Ed Cohen





Format: Paperback, 240pp.
ISBN: 9780470822272
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: June 15, 2007

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Description and Reviews
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Business leaders in today’s borderless global marketplace face unprecedented challenges. The emergence of the knowledge economy has demanded that business leaders become global leaders. Successful global leaders are those with strategies for guiding and empowering a diversified workforce operating in different countries, cultures, and time zones so that they can maximize the return from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs.

Leadership Without Borders poses the question: What advice do successful global leaders have for future and current global leaders? Part 1 distills the practical insights provided by a large number of global business leaders into five key areas:

• The personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader
• The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader
• Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”
• The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment
• Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability

The reader will find in this first part of the book practical suggestions for ensuring that their own personal characteristics, business acumen, worldview, people leadership skills, and business leadership skills set them apart from others and equip them for leadership in the new borderless marketplace. Each chapter ends with a summary of the global leadership viewpoints presented, to assist you in building your own checklist of global leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors that you can start to use right away.

Part 2 then explores in detail successful strategies carried out by the exceptional global leaders of eight world-class organizations:

Booz Allen Hamilton, USA
Change Leaders, Worldwide
Horasis, Switzerland
Nike, Europe
Satyam Computer Services, India
Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
Universitas 21 Global, Singapore
Vodafone, Spain

Leadership Without Borders goes beyond theories of management to provide a solid foundation of practical and detailed guidelines and insights from those leaders who are already at the cutting edge in today’s borderless business environment.



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• "While technology is maming the dream of a truly global marketplace a reality today, we as humans are now slowing things down. The borders that exist today are not created by a lack of transportation or technology...they are created by a lack of human connections." Pg. xi (Foreword) Reader from Virginia, US


About the Author

Ed Cohen, a strategic leader with more than 25 years’ experience in corporate learning and organization development, is Senior Vice President for Satyam Computer Services, Satyam School of Leadership in Hyderabad, India. Ed Cohen is an international speaker on leadership and learning strategies. He is a contributing author to Next Generation Corporate Universities, published by Pfieffer Publishing, a division of John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He has also written numerous articles on strategic learning and leadership. His background includes eight years with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and management consulting firm. He was founder and strategic leader of what became one of the world’s most widely recognized corporate universities. During Ed Cohen’s tenure, Booz Allen received more than 30 “Excellence in Practice” recognitions from the American Society for Training & Development. Ed Cohen earned a Master of Science in Education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida. He lives in India with his wife and daughter.


Table of Contents

	Forward by Tom Rath
	Part One
1	The New Global Frontier
2	Global Leadership Characteristics
3	Global Business Acumen
4	Worldview
5	Global People Leadership
6	Global Business Leadership
6	Part Two
7	Artistry and Science of Global Leadership
8	Satyam, The Creation of a Global Company
9	Transitioning to a Global Mindset
10	Booz Allen Hamilton's Global People Strategy
11	Global Risk Strategies
12	Vodafone Change Leadership
13	Managing your Global Leadership Development
14	Concluding Insights

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Excellent advice from world class leaders June 10, 2007
Reviewer: from London UK
Leadership Without Borders provided great insights from outstanding leaders throughout the world. Ed Cohen has done a great job of creating compelling messages linked together by CxO's around the globe. The first part of the book provides information on key traits and core values as well as the leadership competencies needed to be successful in today's global business environment.

The second part provides first hand experiences from executives from Booz Allen Hamilton, Nike, Vodafone just to name a few. These cases provide great information and reference for the type of changes our organization is going through now.


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