Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders

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In this age of globalization challenges--from economic uncertainty to emerging markets--there are no mapped out answers for the international manager. Global Explorers guides the global manager from the periphery to the center stage of international business leadership.

In a 1997 survey of Fortune 500 firms conducted by authors J. Stewart Black, Allen J. Morrison and Hal B. Gregersen, virtually all companies indicated there was a severe shortage of global leaders. The demand for competent global leaders far outstrips the supply. Global Explorers provides the skills and outlines the competencies future global managers need to fill the leadership gap.

Using extensive research, real-life examples, and 130 in-depth interviews with senior executives representing 50 global companies, including IBM, Disney, Exxon and Sony, Global Explorers suggests the reasons for the global leadership shortage, and identifies the necessary skills to compete in the international marketplace.

The authors associate three basic and necessary competencies to teach the global managers of tomorrow :
Strong Character to acquire the trust and goodwill of people around the world
Duality to embrace conflicting priorities and manage overwhelming uncertainty
Savvy to provide a clear business sense of what needs to be done and how to access the resources to make it happen

For managers who want to safeguard their corporate future in these changing times, Global Explorers will help them develop a personal program for developing and balancing the skills they need to become successful global leaders.

Customer Reviews:

Realistic view of development as an expat.......2007-08-21

This book is valuable for two key insights. First, it highlights the difficulties with global development. It is very difficult and expensive to send promising leaders abroad. Many execs fail abroad. Those that succeed find their organizations back home aren't ready to utilize their new talents. This is a grim reminder of a key roadblock to corporate and personal success in global business.

The second key insight is the difference in types of assignments for various points of an exec's career. Early on working on global teams and global projects in enough. The next level of depth comes from exposure assignments of multiple months. Tactical exposure works, because it unrealistic for someone to make a deep dive into another culture in just a few months. The top level of global development requires multiple years to make an extended contribution alogn with a deeper understanding of global issues. Explaining these levels of development make this a great resource for managers looking for a guide to their own development.

Excellent , practical book for global executives.......2004-10-22

Because of lectures on how to prepare to be a global executive, I have read several books on this subject and highly recommend this one.
The authors have performed extensive research on big multinational companies and were able to come up with a model that makes sense and is easy to understand and put into practice. The model is based on 4 sets of competences: inquisitiveness, perspective, character and savvy. After each set of competences, they use the example of an actual successful executive as a model.
In my opinion, their model is even better than the widely known model from Terence Brake in THE GLOBAL LEADER: CRITICAL FACTORS FOR CREATING THE WORLD CLASS ORGANIZATION.

Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders

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Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders
J. Stewart Black
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K1BQXY

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The Six Rules Jack Welch Lives By:

Control your destiny or someone else will.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were.

Be candid with everyone.

Don't manage, lead.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

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Reads like a fiction with Jack Welch as the Hero.......2005-10-02

Hero worship this book is without shame. Sure, the book calls Jack Welch an "As***le" but it is spoken as a compliment. This highly antagonistic, argumentative, determined, intelligent, and energetic hero is indeed a first class "As***le" without apologies. He is the consummate proof that one needs to be an excellent "As***le" to be considered as a great CEO\manager. If you are one of the nice guys who wants to be gentle, cheerful, and sympathetic to your 80+hr/week working employees, forget it, you can't be a successful manager at GE. You need to be like Jack, and take all the credit for the hard work your underlings, and if any of them complain, you kick their fatass during their review which you are required to cut at least 5% of your staff.

Be a tough, bottom-line demanding, reality driven, confrontation seeking, slave driving, and kick assing manager. Otherwise, you will get your butt kicked by other first class manager\as***les. This is the primary lesson of "Control your destiny or someone else will".

On the business side, I found Jack's view on competitiveness ("if you don't have competitive advantage, don't compete") and productivity (productivity is the engine that drives profitability, job security, competitiveness, and higher pay) quite refreshing.

The title is somewhat misleading........2005-04-04

This is maybe a 4 Star book - IF, and ONLY if, this is the first book on Jack Welch and GE you have picked up. If you have already read "Jack" skip it. There is nothing here that hasn't already been said elsewhere. I was disappointed how little "new" information was presented in this book.

If you are looking for something on the topic of controlling your own destiny this title is somewhat misleading.

Decent read, lessons to be learned........2004-04-04

This book looks dauntingly thick when you pick it up, but some brief exploration will show that including the interviews only 311 pages are the Jack Welch story-- the rest of the book is Afterword, GE Timeline, GE Shareholder Reports, Bibliography and finally a section meant to be applied to your own business. I suppose that there are readers out there who wanted that level of completeness in their history of GE. I did not. I stopped reading after the afterword.

The book covers GE during the period of Jack Welch's reign. Specifically, it charts his efforts in five major initiatives: Services, Six Sigma, Digitization, Succession, and the Honeywell acquisition.

I found it interesting and readable, although I was left with the feeling (despite the author's best efforts) that these were very difficult achievements to duplicate if you did not happen to be Jack Welch. Although ostensibly a business biography, I still had much more of a feel of personality than facts when I was done. I would have been pleased to have a less broad-ranging treatment which delved a little bit more deeply into some specific numbers and consequences. Although this information might have been contained in the investor reports, I had no patience to page through it and find the information.

An educational, yet entertaining, read.......2001-12-19

I came into this book assuming a book on the history of Jack Welch's early years with GE. It ended up being much more and I was pleasantly surprised at the overall educational value of the book.

The book is broken down into three "acts" which recount the years of Jack Welch - when and how he was made the CEO with GE, the early years of layoffs, the early resistance to his ideas, reorganization of GE, the need for globalization, and eventual acceptance of his ideas as he empowered GE's employees. Welch's ideas of empowering the employee encompassed such things as "boundarylessness", strong values, leadership, simplicity, and productivity. As the book progresses, the reader is provided with the real world GE examples that qualified Jack's ideas and their results. Nor does the book hold back from describing Jack's missteps and describes the lessons learned.

Overall the book was a good read. The examples read as stories that both entertain and educate. Welch's ideas, as presented in Control Your Destiny, are probably now considered common sense business practices. The ideas seem simple today, yet were revolutionary for that time as you'll read.

The end of the book provides a manual that can be used to carry out a similar revolution with your business and employees. I didn't really work my way through it - it seemed more appropriate for larger organizations.

Terrific.......2001-11-09

Tichy is a guru of all gurus and he has a winner with this book. Highly recommended.

Control Your Destiny Or Someone Else Will - Lessons In Mastering Change, From The Principles Jack Welch Is Using Revolutionize Ge

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Control Your Destiny Or Someone Else Will - Lessons In Mastering Change, From The Principles Jack Welch Is Using Revolutionize Ge
Noel M. and Sherman, Stratford Tichy
Manufacturer: Harper-business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JZWOSW

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One of the best books on the philosophy of biolgy.......1999-11-07

I have found this to be one of the best treatments of biology, philosophy, evolution, and other related issues that is available. Perhaps this is so because it was not written by a computational biologist, but rather by a "real" biologist, and one who has seen everything since the NeoDarwinian synthesis that he contributed to. I strongly recommend this book to everyone with more than a passing interest in biology.

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Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and San Diego. Brian Fagan draws upon more than three decades of experience sailing those waters under all conditions to offer the definitive cruising guide for both sailors and powerboaters.

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Disappointing.......2007-10-05

After cruising in the Pacific NW for the past two years using the Douglass and Hemingway guides and the Waggoner Guide, we were admittedly spoiled. If that's the quality you expect, you won't get it here. On the other hand, we couldn't find an alternative, and this is better than nothing. The harbor diagrams were nice, but there aren't enough of them and what there are don't provide enough detail. The landmarks mentioned in the text often don't appear in the diagrams. We also noticed inaccuracies, but this could be due to time. For example, the fuel dock in Morro Bay wasn't where the guide said it was. However, the woman at the Visitor Information Center also thought it was in the direction indicated in the book. (For others looking for it, it's across from marker 12, not beyond 18.)

Older book but good information.......2007-07-26

This is a good book for those interested in cruising the west coast, you can always get something out of the book if you plan to make that trip up the coast, lots of good information to research and make plans from.

Outstanding and unique.......2002-11-09

We have used Brian Fagans guidebooks from SD to SF for many years, but this is the best of the lot. We recently led a cruise to the Channel Islands, and made this a "must" for the cruisers, all of whom praised it highly. Really THE guidebook to coastal cruising in Central-Southern California---and a bargain!

Excellent coverage of the channel islands.......2002-01-04

From a recent sailing trip out of Santa Barbara through the channel islands I can tell you that this book is invaluable. His treatment of safe ports and refuges (arranged very well but conditions) was fantastic and kept us out of danger.

The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands

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The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands
Brian M. Fagan
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFVO7O

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Average book.

Is outdated price whise, not enought details,

Clearly Communicates Used Car Buying Data

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Used Car Buying Guide 2005 (Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide)
Editors of Consumer Reports
Manufacturer: Consumer Reports
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Buying Guide 2006 (Consumer Reports Buying Guide)

ASIN: 089043994X
Release Date: 2005-02-10

Book Description

The experts at Consumer Reports help take the risk out of buying a used car.Buying a used car is a greater risk than buying a new one, but can also be the best automotive deal around if the proper homework is done. The 2005 edition of Used Car Buying Guide helps minimize risks by steering readers toward the better-performing and more reliable models and away from those with a troubled past or substandard performance. It is best to be armed with as much information as possible before stepping onto a used car lot, and this book will provide everything needed, including:oHow to navigate the entire buying process, from selection to shopping strategies, negotiation techniques and moreoDetails about all the checks necessary to perform on a car, whether or not a mechanic is involvedoLists of the best and the worst vehicles and how to avoid a lemonoMaking sense of safety informationA major part of this book is devoted to the profiles of 256 cars and trucks, presenting all major 1997-2004 models. Each profile contains a photo from the representative year, a write-up of the vehicle, reliability history, crash-test data, and the model years when key safety gear was added and when a major redesign was made.

Customer Reviews:

Average book........2007-05-29

Read my review of the 2001 book, my opinion stands the same. It's o.k., just lacks some info.

Is outdated price whise, not enought details,.......2005-12-27

is not a bad guide for used car research but just don;t see why it worth 10 bucks, price can;t follow try online usually is more accurate, blue book or edmunds, not details of each car either very basic guide not worth the money.

Clearly Communicates Used Car Buying Data.......2005-09-19

Buying a used car? I am. Buy the "Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide" first.

Rather than depend on the advice of semi-knowledgeable friends, a mechanic biased toward a car maker and not a specific vehicle, or by looking to see what your neighbor drives, you can depend on this.

I bought my 2003 Corolla LE using an earlier guide and intend to buy my next vehicle using the current edition.

In it, I found lists of "Good Bets," which are cars the authors consider to perform well over the years. That is guiding my purchase. I won't buy a car not listed there. I also found lists dividing reliable cars by price range, which cars have had recalls, unreliable models (by year), and detailed descriptions of the pros and cons of each vehicle.

That's not all. There are also articles on safety, buying strategies, batteries, insurance, towing, depreciation, tires and child car seats.

It is not a complicated book. It is straight to the point, with minimal car jargon. Novices like myself are not overwhelmed by information I am not concerned with.

I am interested in safety, performance, cost of repair and related information. I found all of this here.

I fully recommend "Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide." I am confident that because I have read it and will refer to it while I shop for an auto online, I am prepared to save money and to buy a better vehicle.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

A great help for husbands.......2005-09-06

I bought this book as per my husband's request and he is very happy with it.

Kelley Blue Book Used Car Guide 1991-2005: July-December 2006 (Kelley Blue Book Used Car Guide Consumer Edition)

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Kelley Blue Book Used Car Guide 1991-2005: July-December 2006 (Kelley Blue Book Used Car Guide Consumer Edition)
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Manufacturer: Kelley Blue Book
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883392608

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Over 40 million used cars are sold each year, yet the average person has very little idea what to pay for one, or ask as a selling price. First published in 1926 for banks, auto dealers, and other businesses, the Kelley Blue Book quickly set the standard for used vehicle pricing guides. In 1993, the book was finally made available to the general public. Published twice a year, the Consumer Edition of the Kelley Blue Book Used Car Guide includes current trade-in values, private party values, and suggested retail values on over 10,000 models of used cars, trucks, and vans. Covering 15 model years, the book includes VIN numbers, original list price, easy-to-use equipment schedules with values for optional equipment, and a table of acceptable mileage ranges by year. The comprehensive "How to Use this Book" section offers helpful advice on buying a used vehicle.

2005 Complete Guide to Used Cars (Consumer Guide Complete Guide to Used Cars)

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2005 Complete Guide to Used Cars (Consumer Guide Complete Guide to Used Cars)
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ASIN: 1412711118

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The most thorough and comprehensive used car guide on the market, this new 2005 edition of Complete Guide to Used Cars profiles nearly 300 of the most popular cars, trucks, SUVs, and minivans from 1990-2004.

Features:

- Photographs for all models
- Ratings
- Specifications
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- Driving impressions - Safety recalls
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- Repair costs
- and much more

N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Buying Guide OCTOBER 2005

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N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Buying Guide OCTOBER 2005
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N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Buying Guide JULY 2005
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N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Buying Guide SEPTEMBER 2005

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N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Buying Guide DECEMBER 2005

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Binding: Hardcover
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