Charles Hampden-Turner

Presents and assesses more than fifty concepts of how the mind works and attempts to assimilate them into an overall theory

Maps of the Mind

Maps of the mind

Fons Trompenaars

Understanding Diversity in Global Business

Riding the Waves of Culture

The culture of an organization exerts a powerful influence on motivation, performance and profits. Correctly managed, it can foster the sort of values that make an organization strong. The ability to understand, control and develop this culture is therefore a vital senior management skill.

From Vicious to Virtuous Circles

Corporate Culture

Managing People Across Cultures maps out the value of people issues in the organizations of today. It challenges us to ask key questions such as ?How did Human Resource Management (HRM) come to be and what genuine need is there for it?? and ?What should the future direction of HRM be?? Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner spell out their vision for what HRM must do to stay relevant to businesses today. Their view is that people management must embrace the values of entrepreneurship i.e. agility, flexibility and innovation to ensure its continued effectiveness. The authors also argue that workplaces have to become customized to grow and learn as its employees push the boundaries of learning and discovery. Functional barriers also need to be torn down. You will discover that the rightful place for HRM is at the fountainhead of any business; the place where ideas are first generated and mobilized for action.

Managing People Across Cultures

Trompenaars Fons

An introduction to culture - The one best way of organizing does not exist - The meaning of culture - Relationships and rules - The group and the individual - Feelings and relationships - How far we get involved - How we accord status - How we manage time - How we relate to nature - National cultures and corporate culture - Towards international and transnational management - Reconciling cultural dilemmas - South Africa : the rainbow nation - Gender, ethnicity and functional diversity.

2nd Edition

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 2/E

Peter Peverelli

The rise of China will profoundly change the world, and the rest of us now have a chance to understand how and why this is happening, or continue to moralise about this “disaster”, thought to harm our way of life. What is especially galling is that the Chinese appear better able to create wealth and value than the West. Even in the midst of political denunciations, more and more businesses are profitably engaging China. We have to face the fact that China excels at what we are supposed to admire, the peaceful creation of wealth. It even withstands the current pandemic several hundred times more successfully than we have. The answers to China’s success lie not in “communism” but in Chinese civilization and culture which is 22 centuries old and extends to most of East Asia, and has traded peacefully since Roman times. This is a book about measured business cultures, East and West, and explains, using largely Western scholarship, why China is winning and will continue to do so unless and until we wake up.

Has China Devised a Superior Path to Wealth Creation? The Role of Secular Values

This book addresses the twin goals of "Build Back Better" than before the pandemic and the Great Reset called for by the World Economic Forum. Can we use this crisis to re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving, livelihood-enriching phenomenon? All businesses now face the challenge of prospering while serving and saving lives. This should have been their mission all along! The pandemic is killing disproportionately those whom we have neglected. Deaths in Europe and the Americas are between ten and one hundred times more frequent than deaths in China and the region influenced by Chinese civilization for two thousand years. This is all despite the weeks of warning we had and wasted. Since Western governments must massively stimulate their economies in any case, spending trillions, this is a priceless opportunity to usher in certain kinds of world-saving businesses, and show out those kinds of business that wreck our eco-system. We have a priceless opportunity to create an economy that serves all its stakeholders, customers, employees, suppliers and those who physically create wealth, not just those who trade in shares. This virus has sniffed out our selfishness, our toxic levels of individualism and self-indulgence. We should never waste a crisis on recriminations. It is an opportunity to reset our moral compass to re-discover that the true mission of business enterprise is to serve humanity with higher goals. Leadership must be dedicated to service, not self-aggrandizement.

The Great Reset

Culture, Crisis and COVID-19

Mastering the Infinite game Why is the West so frightened of Asia? Here are the facts: The economies of Asia continue to grow at bewildering speed with Singapore now overtaking the USA in GDP per person. China is growing faster than any capitalist country has ever grown since measurement began. Japan’s GDP at $40.000 per person is now a third larger than the US’s $28,000. Why do these economies continue to generate such extraordinary wealth? Mastering the Infinite Game is a unique exploration of the social, cultural and economic differences between East and West. It goes beyond the usual studies of Eastern management to look at the underpinning philosophies and argues that western corporations play to win (a finite game) while the Tiger economies play to learn (an infinite game).

How East Asian Values are Transforming Business Practices

Mastering the Infinite Game

Bram Groen

This story behind the brilliant success of the Cassini-Huygens space mission to Saturn''s largest moon, Titan, details a monumental achievement that took 15 years to accomplish. Sponsored jointly by NASA and the European and Italian Space Agencies (ESA and ISA), the Huygens probe was sent to explore Titan''s atmosphere, which is similar to that of primitive earth around four billion years ago, in search of new data that may unlock the secrets to how life began on Earth. The probe''s touch down on the surface of Titan in January 2005 marked the farthest a man-made spacecraft has successfully landed from Earth. As well as being a fantastic scientific story, this chronicle captures the dynamics that enabled this group of highly diverse people to fight against great odds and obstacles to triumph together.

Leadership and Performance Lessons from the Cassini-Huygens Mission

The Titans of Saturn

Nine visions of capitalism argues that capitalism does have a future despite its recent crises, but only if the standard Anglo-American model of capitalism absorbs the dynamism and flexibility of the German Mittelstand, pays heed to Singapore’s hybridization model and learns from the world’s vibrant immigrant communities.

Charles Hampden-Turner

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