AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE STRATEGIES USED TO BUILD LEADERSHIP IN ASIA
Bestselling author of "Results-Based Leadership In Leadership in
Asia," BusinessWeek's number one Management Educator, Dave Ulrich,
brings together a powerhouse team of contributors to provide a
concise guidebook to cutting-edge trends in leadership at emerging
Pacific Rim companies.
The region's top business and academic experts--Gerald Chan of
UBS Singapore, Girija Pande of Tata Consultancy Services, and
Arthur Yeung from the China Europe International Business School,
among others--guide you through the critical, and often
paradoxical, challenges of developing human capital into effective
leaders of companies in Asia. Individually written chapters are
brought to life by a wealth of revealing examples from each
author's own experiences, as well as illustrative charts and graphs
that offer a clear picture of how these strategies work in the real
world.
Throughout Leadership in Asia, the experts break down in vivid
and thorough detail the eight Asian Leadership Paradoxes as well as
other vital topics. For the inside track on how Asia's economic
force will step into the future, you need "Leadership in Asia."
The impact of Asian businesses has grown exponentially in the
last decade. A variety of challenges still lie ahead for the seven
countries of India, Japan, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Singapore,
and the Philippines as they each undergo economic, social,
technological, and demographic changes. One of these challenges in
particular, the need to develop quality leadership, has emerged at
the forefront.
In "Leadership in Asia," human resources master David Ulrich
puts you inside the heads of Asia's top business executives,
academics, and consultants to learn their strategies for building
successful leadership and human capital in the region. The result
is a potent mix of theory, research, and real-world practices that
will prepare you to tackle the critical issues and paradoxes in the
Asian business arena.
Learn how Unilever Foodsolutions Asia gives its workers clearly
defi ned future goals. See what Microsoft Singapore is doing to
develop sustainable talent. Each contributor's business ideas share
a common component for succeeding in the Asian environment.
Through firsthand guidance from these leaders on the frontlines
of human capital and leadership development, "Leadership in Asia"
shows you how to: Respect and work within family-centric
enterprises while creating professional organizations Recognize
bureaucratic, hierarchical, and political complexity while creating
flexible, agile, and simple organizations Maintain grace, courtesy,
and an Asian style while taking risks and demanding strong
performance
Tomorrow's leaders will respond more rapidly to change and will
have better responses to paradoxes. "Leadership in Asia" presents a
survey of how these future leaders are being developed in one of
the world's most important sectors.
DAVE ULRICH is a professor of business at the University of
Michigan's Ross School of Business and cofounder of The RBL Group,
a consulting firm. Ulrich studies how organizations build
capabilities of speed, learning, collaborating, accountability,
talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has
been ranked the most influential person in human resources by "HR
Magazine" and the number one Management Educator and Guru by
"BusinessWeek." He also is listed as one of the "world's top five"
business coaches by "Forbes" magazine. He lives in Alpine,
Utah.
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