Publications

For over 35 years, Aperian has contributed a great deal of research and thought leadership focused on many aspects of cross-cultural effectiveness. Many of the topics directly impacts how expats navigate global moves.

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Leading Across

New Borders

As businesses operate in an increasingly global context, the most successful leaders are able to see through the eyes of others and to hear the voices of diverse customers and colleagues. Leading Across New Borders features fresh insights based on deep practical experience and new data that identifies the distinctive challenges of leading in a global environment.

Readers will find strategies and tools for working across cultures, leading inclusively, running a matrix team, integrating an acquisition, and making tough ethical choices. The book provides a roadmap to the new leadership paradigm, helping to expand skill sets and create change.

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Inclusive Leadership

Global Impact

Authors Dr. Ernest Gundling and Dr. Cheryl Williams demonstrate how global inclusion initiatives can be combined with local insights to develop, retain, and engage valuable employees around the world, mitigate a range of legal and other risks, and position their organizations for a new wave of innovation and growth propelled by a truly inclusive work environment.

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Working

GlobeSmart

For aspiring global managers and organizations developing tomorrow’s leaders, Working GlobeSmart provides strategies for global success. Whether you are working in your company’s foreign office or on a virtual team that spans many regions, this field guide can help you discover how competencies for crossing national or cultural boundaries add value to global business.

This unique GlobeSmart model demonstrates how to develop cultural competencies at the organizational, group, and interpersonal levels, highlighting 12 key skills critical for success.

Working GlobeSmart was named one of the top business books of the year.

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, ISBN# 0891061770

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Global Diversity

Mastering global business requires that leaders understand the differences that exist within countries as well as between them. Drawing on the authors’ years of experience, Global Diversity presents the key cultural variables relevant in eight major markets.

Explore the business impact of each unique set of diversity variables, and receive recommendations for developing employees and realizing local market opportunities. Learn six steps for creating and implementing a DEI strategy that considers the true diversity existing within countries while enabling every employee to become an engaged and accountable contributor.

Readers will find strategies and tools for working across cultures, leading inclusively, running a matrix team, integrating an acquisition, and making tough ethical choices. The book provides a roadmap to the new leadership paradigm, helping to expand skill sets and create change.

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What is Global Leadership

Many organizations around the world are missing a key point: that global leadership is distinctly different from the leadership skills needed for domestic operations. The global economy requires a new set of leadership skills—imbued with a global mindset, cross-functional and effective across cultures and nationalities.

Receive in-depth insight on these key skills and how they can be applied in the context of leadership development programs, executive coaching, global teams, and leader-led action learning. Whether you’re leading an entire organization, a business unit, or a geographically dispersed team, this is an essential resource for developing global leadership talent.

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, ISBN #9781904838234