Global literacies
Subtitle: lessons on business leadership and national cultures : a landmark study of CEOs from 28 countries
By: Robert Rosen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Rosen, Robert H.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Chief executive officers; Leadership
Description: "In Global Literacies, a team of researchers led by Robert Rosen, Ph.D., of Healthy Companies International, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide have produced the first model of international business success based on a wide-ranging landmark study of global leaders and their world-class companies.

Global Literacies documents the exclusive results of a worldwide survey of over one thousand senior executives and in-depth interviews with CEOs of seventy-eight companies - companies representing 3.5 million employees in more than 200 countries, and with more than $725 billion in annual sales."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-384) and index.
Table of contents: title: The search for global competitiveness. The new business reality ; The cultures of twenty-first-century business; title: The four global literacies: creating a new language of business. Personal literacy: understanding and valuing yourself ; Social literacy: engaging and challenging others ; Business literacy: focusing and mobilizing your organization ; Cultural literacy: valuing and leveraging cultural differences; title: The global literacies at work: solving the five universal business questions. Purpose: where are we going? ; Plan: how do we get there? ; Networks: how do we work together? ; Tools: what resources do we need? ; Results: how do we measure success?; title: Becoming a globally literate leader. Your path to global literacies.