Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders [Hardcover]

J. Stewart Black (Author), Allen J. Morrison (Author), Hal B. Gregersen (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1999 | ISBN-10: 0415921481 | ISBN-13: 978-0415921480 | Edition: 1

This psychological portrait of Bill Clinton and his presidency investigates whether he has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgement, vision, character and skill to face domestic and international challenges. Stanley Renshon reveals a Bill Clinton whose capacity for political success is often undermined by the very traits for which many praise him. Now in paperback with a new introduction for the late 1990s, the book follows the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his highly successful adolescence and long political career. Renshon illustrates how each step along the way - his childhood, the issues surrounding his draft-dodging, his marriage to Hillary Rodham, and his tenure as governor - is crucial to understanding his erratic and controversial presidency. He also explores the nature of the Clinton marriage as a political partnership and looks at Hillary Clinton as an associate president.

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The book is well grounded in theory, yet practical. Recommended for graduate, research, and professional collections. -- Choice, April 2000
...engaging, meaty book. -- CIO: Chief Information Officer Magazine
Air travel, the Internet, television, education, continuous capital markets, and the movement toward democracy have all converged in the latter half of the twentieth century to create a global leadership. This book blueprints the necessary development processes to make this happen. -- Patrick Canavan, Senior Vice President and Corporate Director, Global Leadership and Organizational Development, Motorola
Global Explorers provides a research based framework for developing the global leader of the future--not a country specialist or old hand but the cross-national manager--and it goes deeply to look at the motivations and values of the successful international executive. -- Jean Broom, Vice President, Estee Lauder International
A practical guide for senior leaders, as well as anyone interested in really being a global leader--and in today's organizations, that's almost everyone. Global Explorers does an excellent job of looking at the true global traits that take us beyond the general leaderships models already out there. -- Lynn Slavenski, Vice President of Education and Organization Development, Equifax Inc. (Equifax is an international consumer and commercial credit information service, and has more than $1.6 Billion in revenue.)
A must-read for anyone who hopes to be a leader in tomorrow's global economy. -- Ralph Christensen, Vice President of Human Resources, Hallmark Cards
Global leaders are in short supply. Gregersen, Black and Morrison explain why this is so, identify the essential traits of global leaders and recommend how companies and individuals can prepare for global leadership roles in the 21st Century. -- John Quelch, Dean, London Business School
No leader anywhere can achieve results without global competencies. Global Explorers offers specific, research based, and practical tools that any global leaders must master. It is not only a must read, but offers a series of must do's for results based, global leaders. -- Dave Ulrich, author of Results Based Leadership

About the Author

J. Stewart Black is Visiting Professor of Management at the University of California, Irvine and Managing Director of the Global Leadership Institute. He has written many books, including most recently, with Hal. B. Gregersen, So You're Going Overseas: A Handbook for Personal and 333fessional Success. Allen J. Morrison is Associate Professor of International Management at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Strategies and Structure of the World's 100 Largest Industrial Transnational Corporations (forthcoming). Hal B. Gregersen is Associate Professor of International Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. He is the co-author, with J. Stewart Black, of Globalizing People Through Effective International Assignments (1999).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415921481
• ISBN-13: 978-0415921480
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hal B Gregersen is a Professor of Leadership at Insead; a co-founder of The Innovator's DNA, a leadership consultancy; and a Senior Fellow at Innosight, a management consultancy. He is the co-author of seven books including The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, It Starts With One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations, and Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders. He and his wife live in Boston and Paris where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, painting, as part of a global community of social entrepreneurs dedicated to creating positive change through the arts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent , practical book for global executives, October 22, 2004

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This review is from: Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders (Hardcover)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Realistic view of development as an expat, August 20, 2007

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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.