Culture Clash: Managing the Global High-Performance Team (The Global Leader Series)

Culture Clash is the ultimate guide to working in an international and diverse team environment. You and your international managers learn how to avoid costly mistakes, how to decode national or corporate cultures, and how to navigate cross-cultural projects for best results. An absolute necessity for smart leaders who manage across cultures.

Thomas D. Zweifel is a strategy and performance expert, professor and award-winning author. With three decades in management and consulting, while living on four continents, he has helped senior executives at numerous Fortune 500 companies--as well as governments, UN agencies, the military and a football/soccer club--to build global strategy alignment, leadership, and high-performance organizations in the action of meeting strategic and/or breakthrough objectives.

Since 2001 Dr. Zweifel has taught leadership at Columbia University, St. Gallen University, and business schools in Australia, Israel, Switzerland, and the United States.

He is the author of seven books on leadership, including "Communicate or Die" (SelectBooks 2003); "Leadership in 100 Days" (iHorizon 2010); "The Rabbi and the CEO" (SelectBooks 2008, with Aaron L. Raskin), a National Jewish Book Award and Foreword Book of the Year finalist; and "Strategy-In-Action" (iHorizon 2014, with Edward J. Borey), a Readers Favorite Silver Award winner in Business & Finance. Strategies based on Dr. Zweifel's books are used by 40+ Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and government agencies in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Zweifel consults in English, German, and French. He holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from New York University and often appears in the media, including ABC News, BloombergTV, and CNN. His interdisciplinary and action-packed keynotes have inspired audiences in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

In 1996 he realized his dream of breaking three hours in the New York City Marathon and in 1997 was recognized as "the fastest CEO in the New York City Marathon" by the Wall StreetJournal. He lives in Zurich with his wife and their two daughters.