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Focusing on the global-local dilemma, this guide offers professionals practical strategies for implementing performance management systems in multinational companies. It serves as a research-based reference resource, helping to navigate the complexities of aligning global standards with local practices effectively.

Focusing on the experiences of influential global leaders, this book explores the complexities of modern leadership through personal anecdotes from figures like Michael Dell and Richard Branson. It highlights seven key dilemmas that leaders face, offering valuable insights for today's managers. By examining real-world challenges and solutions, it redefines what effective leadership looks like in the 21st century, providing practical guidance for navigating the intricacies of leading in a rapidly changing environment.

This book gives an overview of the key features and potential applications of each of the most important management models in nine different categories: sustainability, innovation, strategy, diversity, customers, human resources, benchmarking, leadership and implementation.

The whole is harmony, not discord. Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors' extensive experience in international business, this book compares the cultural values of more than forty nations. With humour, cartoons, and an array of business examples, the authors demonstrate how cross-cultural competence and the reconciliation of cultural differences can cause whole organizations to grow healthier, wealthier and wiser.

"Did the Pedestrian Die?" compiles a decade of research on cultural diversity, revealing key insights from a vast database of 70,000 global managers and interviews with business leaders. Trompenaars offers humorous and inspiring solutions to organizational challenges, emphasizing the impact of cultural understanding in the workplace.

Business Across Cultures is the keystone book in the Culture for Business series. It provides an overview of all subjects tackled in the other books of the series. Its particular aim is to provide executives with a cross-cultural perspective on how companies meet the diverse needs of customers, investors and employees; to introduce the main ideas in business in a multicultural context; and to show how they all fit together.

The marketing process is beset by dilemmas and Marketing Across Cultures is a cornerstone book in the Culture for Business series. Trompenaars and Woolliams show how we can understand different markets and customer needs in a wide range of cultural contexts.

The definitive guide to cross-cultural management.

International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly revised, second edition, updated to include new case histories and fresh research findings, uses country-by-country graphs, examples, and other comparisons to clearly illustrate how different cultures respond to different management approaches; provides case histories to show how managers have successfully anticipated and mediated difficult and potentially costly dilemmas; and shows how managers can prepare their organizations for the process of internationalization through specific points of intervention.