Riding The Tiger: Leading Through Learning in Turbulent Times
by Priscilla Nelson & Ed Cohen – ASTD Press, May 2010
Leadership and the ability to influence change can convert turbulence into an opportunity for success. Though most leadership books are 
written from the viewpoint of lessons on the path to great success, Riding the Tiger provides a rare opportunity to learn from a catastrophic event that shook the foundation of a thriving global organization. This book gives you a specific, step-by-step approach to take that tiger by the tail and benefit from the challenges of leading during chaotic times. You’ll discover many innovative leadership techniques as you read the fascinating, powerful stories about people who’ve implemented these tools. These experiences and techniques are universally applicable wherever people in an organization are facing turbulence-whether caused by the global recession, rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions, internal corruption, or any other changes.
In 2009, the authors, Priscilla Nelson and Ed Cohen, were flourishing as senior leaders at India’s fourth largest IT services firm, Satyam Computer Services, a 53,000 person company with presence in 60 countries. It all came to a startling halt when the CEO confessed to “cooking the books” and the company became known as “India’s Enron.” Based on strategies, many of which they implemented during this crisis, Riding the Tiger provides outstanding leadership techniques steering the way to organizational renewal.
Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from World Class Leaders
by Ed Cohen, published by John Wiley & Sons – 2007
Business leaders in today’s borderless global marketplace face unprecedented challenges. The emergence of the knowledge economy has demanded that business leaders become global leaders. Successful global leaders are those with strategies for guiding and empowering a diversified workforce operating in different countries, cultures, and time zones so that they can maximize the return from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs. This is critical for leaders and requires blending cultural definitions of leadership with multiple geographic influences.
Leadership Without Borders poses the question: What advice do successful global leaders have for future and current global leaders?
Part 1 distills the practical insights provided by a large number of global business leaders into five key areas:
1. The personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader.
2. The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader
3. Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”
4. The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment
5. Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability
The reader will find in this first part of the book practical suggestions for ensuring that their own personal characteristics, business acumen, worldview, people leadership skills, and business leadership skills set them apart from others and equip them for leadership in the new borderless marketplace. Each chapter ends with a summary of the global leadership viewpoints presented, to assist you in building your own checklist of global leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors that you can start to use right away.
Part 2 explores in detail successful strategies carried out by the exceptional global leaders of eight world-class organizations.
Leadership Without Borders goes beyond theories of management to provide a solid foundation of practical and detailed guidelines and insights from those leaders who have lived and worked in more than 60 different countries and who are already at the cutting edge in today’s borderless business environment.
Contributing Authors
Dr. Mukesh Aghi,
CEO, Universitas 21 Global
B. Ramalinga Raju,
Founder and Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Limited
V. Shankar,
Global Head, Corporate Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
Ralph W. Shrader,
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Geoff Taylor,
Director of Risk Management, Nike Europe, Middle East & Africa Region; Nike, Inc.
Antonio Aleman,
Business Unit Managing Director, Vodafone Spain, Vodafone Group
Marjan Bolmeijer,
CEO, Change Leaders, Inc.
Frank-Jurgen Richter,
President, Horasis.
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