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Close: Leading Well Across Distance and Cultures. By Ken Cochrum. Rated 5 stars from 12 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $14.99; digital list price $9.99; Kindle price now
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http://www.amazon.com/Close-Leading-...e+and+Cultures.
Book Description
Designed to be read on a two- or three-hour flight by busy executives and ministry leaders, CLOSE: Leading Well Across Distance and Cultures
flattens the steep learning curve required to be effective in 21st century global leadership. How do you effectively lead, motivate, inspire, and coach someone you lead who lives in a different country, culture, or time zone? When polled about actual time spent in face-to-face and mediated communication, most distance leaders admitted that they only had 20-40 hours of communication per year! That's only five days. Ken Cochrum presents an easy-to-grasp paradigm of servanthood, distance leadership, and cross-cultural leadership based on three years of research and personal interviews with more than 80 global leaders.
Contents. Part 1 sets the context for global leadership. Chapter 1 explores the nature of the five-day leadership challenge. Most global leaders get no more than a total of 40 hours per year of face-to-face and phone/online contact with those they lead. How does one empower another to lead effectively the other 360 days per year? Chapter 2 looks at the current reality of the changing nature of global leadership in the 21st century. It gives us hard data that defines the work environment and its impact on workers. Chapter 3 calls us back to the scope of global leadership to which we are called by God in the midst of the existing culture. Chapter 4 surveys how the apostle Paul practiced servant leadership across distance and cultures during the rapid expansion of the first century church and gave us a model to follow today.