GlobalWork : Bridging Distance, Culture, and Time - Mary O'Hara-Devereaux

GlobalWork

Bridging Distance, Culture, and Time

By: Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, Robert Johansen

Paperback | 18 May 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Provides practical answers to the most pressing questions faced daily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of such organizations as Apple Computer, AT&T, and American Express, this guide to the challenges of managing globally identifies the key competencies that managers need to succeed in the global workplace.<br> <br> Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace.<br> <br> Get the practical answers to the most pressing questions faced by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking research, this guide also identifies the key competencies managers need to succeed in the global workplace.
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"If you're a player in the global market, don't leave home withoutGlobalwork." (Peter G. W. Keen, chair, International Center forInformation Technology)

"Globalwork advances an essential principle that developments inculture and technology must go hand in hand in order to promotecross-cultural collaboration. Anyone working in Chinese-speakingnations would do well to read this book." (Hanmin Liu, president,United States-China Educational Institute)

"The greater the distance dividing us, the more relationshipsassume priority. Globalwork offers Europeans and others tools tomanage the major changes occurring in today's work environment."(Meryem le Saget, director of Erasme International, Paris)

"While the sixties and seventies focused on the Americanization ofthe rest of the planet, the nineties will focus on the culturalglobalization of American business. Globalwork clearly depicts theimportant issues of the nineties business world." (Bob Douglas,global product supply specialist, Procter & Gamble)

"To Mexicans, NAFTA symbolizes a very important step in developingbetter and equal-partner business relationships across our borders.To get there we need a deeper understanding of each other as peopleas well as connections through technology. Globalwork providesMexican and U.S. businesspeople with the kind of broad andequidistant perspective needed." (Guadalupe Martinez de Leon,chair, Organizational Development Masters Program, University ofMonterrey, Mexico)

"One of the few cutting-edge books you'll read this year. It's asvaluable for the new perspective it'll give you as for the toolsyou can put to use now."

``This practical handbook makes sense of the daily conflicts,uncertainties, and pleasures of work in cross-cultural teams,global outposts, and even cyberspace through the cultural lensesused by anthropologistslanguage, time, context, power, andinformation flow.''

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