Leadership Without Borders

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 returns from trading in a worldwide market with distinct local needs.

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:

• The personal characteristics required to ensure success as a global leader.
• The business acumen needed to thrive as a global leader.
• Methods for expanding global awareness – or “worldview”.
• The people leadership skills and attributes needed to succeed in any environment.
• Business leadership skills and attributes that will enhance global leadership ability.

The practical suggestions in business acumen, worldview, people leadership skills, and business leadership will equip the readers to become leaders 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.

Ed Cohen, a strategic leader with more than 25 years’ experience in corporate learning and organization development, is Senior Vice President for Satyam Computer Services, Satyam School of Leadership in Hyderabad, India.
He is an international speaker on leadership and learning strategies. He is a contributing author to Next Generation Corporate Universities, published by Pfieffer Publishing, a division of John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He has also written numerous articles on strategic learning and leadership.
His background includes eight years with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and management consulting firm. He was founder and strategic leader of what became one of the world’s most widely recognized corporate universities. During Ed Cohen’s tenure, Booz Allen received more than 30 “Excellence in Practice” recognitions from the American Society for Training & Development.
Ed Cohen earned a Master of Science in Education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida. He lives in India with his wife and daughter.