Global Teams: How Top Multinational Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork

by Michael J. Marquardt and Lisa Horvath

Book Overview

Learn what it takes to master the challenges of global teamsJust like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. Businesses everywhere are at last recognizing global teams for what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891061576
• ISBN13: 9780891061571
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting views

This is mostly about common sense, but it does provide some clever insight into today's multinationals and it's worth for anyone interested in how our different cultures can work together in one organization, and perform at their best. The authors start from an interesting premise, that is "you can never completely understand a culture that is not yours / or that you haven't been living in".

First book to show the real power of global teams!

Presents the key challenges facing global teams with specific recommendations and case studies on how to overcome those challenges.

Wonderful Treatment of What's Known

Marquardt and Horvath have done a very competent job bringing together good practices for people and organizations working in different places and cultures. Examples from Pfizer and other global corporations make the clear, simply written prose real to the reader, whether a newcomer to this interesting and pertinent field or someone who, like me, has seen a lot of the literature and done a lot of this work already. For my taste, I would have preferred to see more about technology, but the coverage was good and comprehensive enough to whet the appetite or confirm in business language what the practitioner would need to say to a business leader or a manager who was having trouble or starting out. The layout of the book is pleasant. What did worry me about the work, which I still rate highly, is suspicion that the research and scholarship were not up to a high standard, e.g., the consistently incorrect citation of the 1994 classic in the field "Globalwork" by Mary O'Hara-Devereaux and Robert Johansen, from which many of the authors' points are drawn, and an index that was generally wrong in its pagination.