Global Business Management

Managers want to know how to lead virtually, how to keep their teams motivated, and how to keep employees productive. Providing compelling, evidence-based answers to these issues, Remote Work Revolution is essential for navigating the enduring challenges teams and managers face. Filled with specific actionable steps and interactive tools, this timely book will help team members deliver results previously out of reach. Employees will be able to break through routine norms to successfully use remote work to benefit themselves, their groups, and ultimately their organizations.

Global Mind, Local Impact isn’t another paint-by-numbers business book. It’s a raw, honest, and unfiltered field guide for the quiet disruptors, digital nomads, remote leaders, freelancers, and global professionals who are tired of chasing opportunity by outdated rules—and ready to build something real across borders. In a world where your coworkers could live in five different time zones, and one message can be read five different ways, cultural competency is no longer a “soft skill”—it’s your superpower.

Practical ideas, tools, and tips for managing yourself, collaborating with others, and leading other people when working in remote, virtual, and hybrid teams, and when working from home. Based on the latest research and over 25 years’ experience training over 100,000 people in remote and virtual working with over 400 leading organizations around the world. Includes the latest learning from the COVID period global mass experiment in remote working.

Tailored specifically for Black women, this comprehensive guide addresses the unique financial challenges and opportunities they face, providing practical tools and insights for economic empowerment.

In an era where the foundational elements of business are being disrupted, Essential emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the profound changes reshaping industries and markets worldwide. This book, penned by a team of seasoned business and leadership strategists, offers a radical and necessary perspective on management transformation, emphasizing the importance of human-centered leadership in meeting the full potential of the technology age.

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

From family and friends, to romantic partners, professional interactions, and community connections, relationships are an integral part of life. Just as our heart pumps blood throughout our physical bodies to keep us alive, relationships are the lifeblood that helps keep our social and emotional worlds going. Despite the importance of relationships, many of us struggle when it comes to creating healthy and meaningful ones. We are incredibly advanced in science, technology, and medicine – yet when it comes to getting along with others we struggle.

There's so much more to the role of culture in business than etiquette and local customs. Recognizing its importance - and providing a clear-eyed look at how it works in real-life scenarios - is why Riding the Waves of Culture became essential learning when it was first published in 1997.

The rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see. That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’ well-being. The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching—leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events ranging from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald Trump. What are they going to miss next?

Unlock the secret to building a business that isn't just insanely profitable but deeply meaningful, freeing you to concentrate on what truly matters. With a unique blend of management theories, practical frameworks and a step-by-step guide to navigating the entrepreneurial landscape, the book offers more than wisdom; it provides a roadmap.

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees. In Talent Tectonics, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages. You'll find insights from a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe.

Change Management and Process Improvement are considered two separate disciplines. Change Management initiatives often originate in the human resources department, whereas Process Improvement plans may come from the quality engineering or the project management departments. These departments' agendas, knowledge, mindset, and resource competency differ. However, Change Management approaches and Process Improvement models have much in common.

All of us have been in a situation where we have to manage or lead a group of people. No matter if you are the owner of a small startup, a supervisor, or the head of a million dollar company, you know managing a group of people is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Just think about how hard it is to organize and satisfy a whole family on vacation. This should be a piece of cake compared to the challenges someone in a management position is facing. As a higher-up, you don't want to be the authoritarian bad guy everyone uses to point fingers at.

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners.

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists now think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Artists no longer simply make art, but package, sell, and brand it. Noah Horowitz exposes the inner workings of the contemporary art market, explaining how this unique economy came to be, how it works, and where it's headed.

This book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today's global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by 20 top CEOs - one from each G20 country - gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project. Through seven easy-to-digest "master classes" that demystify the role of the 21st-century CEO, the authors present their findings in an accessible, conversational style that serves as a step-by-step guide for those who aspire to become CEOs and develop essential character traits, experience, and skills required of the role.

Are you sitting at home dreaming of a better future? Of course, everyone does that, but most don’t bother to get off their sofa and take action. But you’re different, right? You want to live an extraordinary life and be financially secure. You’ve come to the right place! A Teenager’s Guide on How to Get Rich is your one-stop guide to precisely what it says on the tin: learning how to line your bank account with cash and be comfortable for the rest of your days. After all, anyone can become rich.

No longer only the domain of corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has now become a serious concern for many firms and a major sphere of academic research. However, most strikingly, by encouraging corporations to play a role in economic governance, particularly at the global level, CSR also raises issues for political science, public policy, and the world of politics as a whole.

¿Sabías que el 40% de las empresas españolas no encuentra profesionales con la formación y las capacidades necesarias? Dado que el futuro de una empresa y el de una carrera profesional dependen de desarrollar el talento y las habilidades, la educación para ejecutivos y directivos es fundamental. Sin embargo, una gran parte de los programas de alta dirección no están bien diseñados ni se aplican correctamente.

In today’s polycrisis world—where pandemics, political instability, online outrage, and fractured supply chains collide—business as usual is a recipe for failure. Responsible Management in Crisis breaks through the noise with gripping, real-world case studies of a dozen leaders who faced extraordinary pressure and made one defining choice: to lead with principle or retreat into safety.