Global Leadership

This audiobook offers five proven principles so multinational companies can advance diversity, equity, and inclusion with a nuanced understanding of local contexts across countries and cultures. Local relevance - understanding markets and acknowledging local beliefs, regulations, and history - is essential for global success. This groundbreaking audiobook explicitly details how to take local histories, laws, and practices into account in DEI transformation work while promoting social justice worldwide.

What should our global strategy look like in an age of renewed great power competition? And what must America offer to a newly empowered developing world when we're no longer the only major player? In The American Imperative, international development expert Daniel Runde makes the case for building a new global consensus through vigorous internationalism and the judicious use of soft power.

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.

Designed to Win, written by Po Chung - the co-founder of DHL - reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist!

Lean Six Sigma is a business methodology that focuses on improving processes and reducing waste to achieve operational excellence. It draws from Total Quality Management, Project Management, and successful business models. Leaner Six Sigma® is the next generation of Lean Six Sigma. It is designed to make Lean Six Sigma easier to use and simplify terms and concepts. Lean Six Sigma is often misunderstood, and several common misconceptions surround it. One misconception is that it is only applicable to manufacturing industries.

A new edition of the bestseller that has helped aspiring leaders worldwide advance their careers and step up to larger leadership roles. Updated with new examples and self-assessments, this book gives you the tools to start acting like a leader and advancing your career to the next level.

World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we think we are, and how people around the world can secure their collective prosperity through new approaches to cross-border integration. Provocative and bold, this new audiobook will surprise and move you, no matter where you stand on globalization.

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years.

Winner of a 2020 Nautilus Book Award An International Bestseller “The Values Compass takes us into the hearts, minds, and traditions of the cultures and people of the world. It demonstrates how interconnected we are and how the divisions that exist between us stem from acting with narrow...

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it "a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order". But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist. In this book, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them.

A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades—a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge. “In a world of half-baked hot takes, Marian Salzman is a true seer...

American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous. America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II convinced that global engagement and leadership were essential to prevent another global conflict and further...

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which...

A provocative case for why a better world is only possible with American power by Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. From acclaimed author Shadi Hamid comes an urgent and deeply personal argument for why American dominance, despite its many flaws, remains the world’s best hope. Hamid...

In Don't Wait forthe Next War, Wesley K. Clark, a retired four-star general of the US Armyand former Democratic candidate for president, presents a compelling argumentfor continued American global leadership and the basis on which it cansucceed: a new American strategy. America needs both new power and deeperperspective.

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.

In today's fast-paced world, leaders need to move at speed. The rate of innovation and change in organizations and the challenges of impatient investors or shareholders mean leadership decisions must be quick, smart, and deliver real impact. Superfast provides cutting-edge inspiration and a host of exciting ideas about how to accelerate performance in an agile and thoughtful way, shedding new light on leading in a world which is fluid and uncertain. You'll learn the practical solutions to leadership questions which the most savvy global leaders employ.

The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom, and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western world, and to oppose autocracy and repression. But as Bernard-Henri Levy lays bare in this powerful and disturbing analysis of the world today, America is retreating from its traditional leadership role, and in its place have come five ambitious powers, former empires eager to assert their primacy and influence.

Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic, global, commercial world with its thriving innovations. The other is the world of national security, in which innovation is a matter of life or death. The conflict is about secrecy. Innovating in a Secret World is a detailed examination of the current trends in often secret national security-related research and development (R&D).

"Ogni società, qualunque sistema politico abbia, si trova eternamente in bilico tra un passato che rappresenta la sua memoria e una visione del futuro che ispira la sua evoluzione. Lungo questa strada, è indispensabile avere una leadership: occorre prendere decisioni, conquistarsi fiducia, mantenere promesse, proporre una rotta da seguire." Tra coloro che meglio hanno incarnato quest'arte del buon governo, Henry Kissinger, diplomatico e statista leggendario, annovera sei personaggi che hanno forgiato la storia del secondo Novecento."