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Global Teams
Book

Global Teams

How the Best Teams Achieve High Performance

FT Press, 2016 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Applicable
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

To succeed at globalization, businesses need efficient teams operating at their peak worldwide. Global teams struggle with geography, time differences, and cultural and linguistic barriers. Their companies often must reconcile these teams’ divergent worldwide and local or national goals. Leadership expert Jo Owen explains that while senior executives tend to see global goals as paramount, team members also face local and national priorities. Owen’s fascinating and quite specific manual, while somewhat repetitive, includes a wealth of relevant details. getAbstract recommends his useful handbook to senior managers and global team leaders.

Take-Aways

  • In the past, managers treated globalization as if it meant simply adopting Western management practices everywhere.
  • Global teams struggle with geography, time differences, and cultural and linguistic barriers.
  • Every team – local or worldwide – must build trust among its members.

About the Author

Jo Owen is the award-winning author of 15 books, an entrepreneur and a frequent speaker on leadership. He built and led firms in Japan, Europe and North America. For this book, he worked with and researched more than 100 of the best organizations – and one or two of the worst.   


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