The turn of the century is here. How can you prepare your company for the changes the 21st century will certainly bring? In the second edition of his best-selling book, A Manager's Guide to Globalization, Stephen Rhinesmith continues to offer insights into understanding and developing new mindsets and skills for management success in an increasingly challenging international market. Dr. Rhinesmith has updated his extensive bibliography from business, comparative. Management, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and intercultural relations, and added many examples of how corporations are dealing with globalization of their operations. Based on his experience training over 5,000 managers from 35 different countries, as well as extensive globalization consulting with companies like Ford and American Express, Rhinesmith addresses the key questions many managers ask about what globalization means for jobs, mindsets, and. Skills. A Manager's Guide to Globalization shows you how to understand the forces driving companies to go global; manage the conflicts and contradictions of global matrix organizations; manage the alignment of corporate cultures and systems to global operations; lead multicultural teams comprised of people from many national backgrounds; and develop a comprehensive 12 step human resource development program for developing managers with global mindsets and skills. In this. Second edition of A Manager's Guide to Globalization, Rhinesmith has expanded on the six mindsets, characteristics, and management skills needed by managers to operate in a global organization. You will also discover many new examples of what companies are doing to change their organizations from geographic to global product organizations that are fast, flexible, and responsive to both global and local markets.