Global Teams

How the best teams achieve high performance
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-292-17191-3
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Working for a matrix international organisation, with its ensuing diverse global teams, based in a variety of geographic locations is a fact of life for most leaders and managers today. These teams may be permanent, or they may come together temporarily to deliver a specific project. The challenges of making decisions, setting goals, communicating, building trust and managing the team are far harder when you are separated by time, language, culture and priorities. will enable leaders, teams and organisation to deal with the challenges they face:

· How can you ensure that your global team delivers results?

· How do I trade off our local goals and priorities versus the global priorities?

· How do I find out what is really going on and how it will affect me?

· Can I trust top management to support my agenda and me personally?

· How can I lead people who I do not see and are not like me?

Based on original research with some of the world’s leading companies, is the definitive, practical guide on making the sharp end of globalisation work for you and your organisation.

Bertrand Lavayssiere, Ayres and Co. Strategy Consultancy

Sadie Jane Nunis, Singapore Institute of Management, Publications Manager

Nigel Nicholson, Professor, London Business School, author of “The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for seeing being and doing” (Jossey-Bass, 2013)

Alberto Forchielli. Managing Partner, Mandarin Capital Partners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, Jo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

2 Summary: what is special about global teams

Part One: Leading the Team

3 The global leadership challenge: new skills, new mindset

Part Two: Teams without Borders

4 Trust: the glue that binds the team

5 Communications: shrinking distance

Part Three: Creating the Firm Wide Context for Success

6 Goals: shared goals or clear goals?

7 Systems and processes: the building blocks of success

8 People and skills: global talent, global mindset

9 Culture: building cultural intelligence

10 Structure: co-ordination and conflict

Part Four: Rising to the Global Challenge

11 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jo Owen has worked with over 100 organisations around the world in most major industries. He is the founder of eight charities which have a collective turnover of £100 million annually including Teach First which is now the largest graduate recruiter in the UK. He built a business in Japan without speaking Japanese; he created HBOS business banking; he was a partner at Accenture and started his career at P&G. He also has spent eight years working with tribes across the world to discover how they survive and succeed, and what businesses can learn from them. He has written 15 books on leadership and management including the best-selling How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School and is in demand as a speaker at conferences. He was awarded the OBE by the Queen for starting Teach First.