Synopsis

"An inspirational and empowering guide for emerging leaders, global companies and executive coaches."-The Globe

As the world becomes more connected and differences as well as similarities multiply, current and emerging leaders need extraordinary agility and leadership skills to thrive in the midst of complexity and change.

In The Age of Pluralism: Global Intelligence for Emerging Leaders, David Clive Price – a leading expert on Global Leadership – delivers a clarion call for pluralism in an age of increasing tribal and nationalist defensiveness and xenophobia. To reflect and drive this multicultural and interconnected world, the upcoming leaders of the future need a leadership toolkit – for increasing teamwork and innovation, and for leveraging diversity of generations, backgrounds and cultures.

David reveals that in order to thrive in the new global digital order, where we are only a click away from the rest of the world, we don’t need to learn hundreds of different cultures.

Our connectivity is making us more ready to empathize, explore and relate to ‘others’. The highway to success is to draw out and exercise those strengths of leadership agility that are already latent or partially active within us. Those strengths will be increasingly in demand as the Age of Pluralism gathers pace on the back of rapid technological change, the rise of the emerging economies, demand for global talent, and shifting patterns of migration.

David has helped executives, emerging leaders, managers and their teams work better together, build relationships, network, negotiate, manage and more in diverse workplaces and markets across our globalized world. In his coaching, writing and speaking, he has evolved a model – The Bamboo Strong CQ Model™ – based on scholarly research in 72 countries.

The Bamboo Strong™ model has led David to conclude that a global mindset is a ‘muscle of the mind’. It strengthens the more we exercise it and it leads inevitably to success in today’s global economy.

David has used the Bamboo Strong CQ Model™, along with world-leading tools such as the Intercultural DISC™ assessment, to help leading companies and Fortune 500s achieve outstanding results by strengthening the pipeline of next generation leaders.

Outline

This book is structured on a clear and actionable process to help you become stronger leaders in today’s multidimensional business world. It’s not an academic or how-to primer, even if it proposes proven scientific models that can help you on your way. Above all, the book speaks personally and directly from the author’s own experience in many countries and in many different work and life situations around the world.

Proposed Foreword by John Mattone, World’s #1 Authority on Intelligent Leadership

Introduction: The Age of Pluralism

The Challenge to Global Leadership

Chapter 1: Tribal Tom-Toms

Chapter 2: The Rise of the Amphibians

Chapter 3: Re-centering Our Worlds

Chapter 4: Bridges not Barriers

The Tools for Global Leadership

Chapter 5: Becoming Bamboo Strong™

Chapter 6: The CQ Model for Success

Chapter 7: The Intercultural DISC™ Difference

Chapter 8: Creating Intelligent Leaders™ for Tomorrow

The Highway to Global Leadership

Chapter 9: Moving Beyond Diversity

Chapter 10: Only Connect

Chapter 11: The Future Here, Now & Everywhere

Chapter 12: Postscript: Intelligent Global Leadership

Audience

This book is for emerging and high potential leaders, and executive coaches.

Leadership capacity and development has always been a key concern for executives and senior HR professionals. This concern has been heightened recently by increasing globalization and business complexity as well as the impending retirement of vast numbers of seasoned leaders.

At a time when organizations need more leaders—and more experienced leaders—organizations are facing the single largest departure of leaders in modern history. This leadership gap has led an increasing number of organizations to place renewed emphasis on the development and acquisition of emerging leaders—particularly members of Generation X and Millennials.

Leadership development has been slow to catch up. According to a recent study, only 52 percent of Millennials feel prepared to take on their new roles. Given that frontline leaders play such a crucial part in the near-term implementation and execution of business strategy, these gaps will have serious negative impacts on long-term growth.

Millennials aged 18-34 are estimated to number some 78 million in America alone. The global population of emerging leaders is exponentially greater, and is now ready to reshape the world’s economy. Research shows that 40% of Millennials believe they are capable of having a global impact in some way.

So what is being done to equip them?

Clearly, many organizations use executive coaching to address leadership challenges. Executive coaching is a $1.5 billion per year industry, with most of the biggest enterprises now using coaches.

The numbers continue to increase. Industry surveys suggest there are 25,000 + business coaches in Europe, which comprises about 40 per cent of all business coaches in the world (estimated at 150,000+)

However, while executive coaching is top-of-mind for executives and HR, research shows that only 35% of the organizations used executive coaching for their emerging leaders.

By contrast, 48% of the organizations used executive coaching for VP level and senior executives, while 65% of the organizations surveyed did not cite executive coaching as an important developmental strategy for their high-potential pipeline.

This represents a significant opportunity for organizations and coaches – especially in light of what different generations expect from their employers.

Generation X employees want a casual, independent, flexible environment, and a place to learn; Generation Y employees want a structured, supportive, and interactive environment. Both want continuous growth and “connectedness” with people – including people they interact with throughout the world.

That is the audience for this book. 

Promotion

David is backed by several world-leading coaches, certification programs and coaching partnerships, including John Mattone’s global network of Intelligent Leadership coaches, Marshall Goldsmith, Intercultural DISC, Evoloshen Academy and others. This book is for this audience of leaders, coaches, clients and colleagues directly.

David's speaking engagements, Bamboo Strong workshops, conference keynotes, webinars, podcasts and online videos are the main platforms with thousands of new and existing potential readers for the book.

Social media and podcasts, TV interviews, corporate sponsors, leadership forums, young leader forums, and Not-For-Profits could all help spread the marketing message.

• Email list size = 1000+

• Social media following = 6,000+

• Professional website = http://davidcliveprice.com

• The video strategy is to create a video marketing campaign of 6 short videos with core resources/tools of The Age of Pluralism

Major upcoming forums with keynotes, book signings (alongside Marshall Goldsmith), and workshops include a high-level 3-day tech conference in North Carolina, USA, and the World Business and Executive Coaching Summit 2018.

SPEAKING

·      American Chamber of Commerce series of events, Morocco, May 2018: Bamboo Strong CQ workshops and keynotes: “Agile Leadership for the New Global Economy”

·      World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS), Summer 2018, topics including leadership agility, cultural intelligence, intelligent global leadership. t.b.c.

·      Vanguard Tech Tour, September 19-21, Wilmington, North Carolina; “Bamboo Strong – How to Become an Intelligent Global Leader”

·      Further events, t.b.c.

WEBINARS

1. Existing Santander International Trade Platform “Doing Business Globally” – Email list promotion of webinar goes out once per month.
2. New Leads/subscribers through Facebook advertising – This process is in the exploratory phase but could obtain significant new signups for each of our webinars.

PODCASTS & RADIO

"Doing business in China?" David’s interview with BBC World Service Radio http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0201hnf

Source Nation Radio! How to become a true Bamboo Leader in changing times! http://bit.ly/2cbgvE1

John Mattone on Intelligent Leadership, hosted by Dr.David Clive Price http://bit.ly/2zLwHHa

Asia Business Secrets (12-part series) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Asia+Business+Secrets

Asia Business Network Podcast (I-Tunes)

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/asia-business-network-podcast/id842765731?mt=2

Bamboo Strong: Audible Audio Book http://amzn.to/2CKkVOO

SELECTED POSTS IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Asia Business Interview with Asia Entrepreneur http://bit.ly/1MRVPzW

International Business Times

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/should-corruption-risks-stop-you-doing-business-china-1441273

Business Insider

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/business/

BBC World Service Radio Interviews David Clive Price

http://uk.prweb.com/releases/bbcradio/04-14/prweb11807089.htm

https://www.bus-ex.com/index.php?q=article/secrets-successful-business-relationship-china

BOOK REVIEWS

“Bamboo Strong is exactly what business leaders need to manage in today’s complex, multidimensional markets! ” 

— Marshall Goldsmith, Global Gurus #1 Executive Coach in the World

“An absolute must for anyone who owns or manages a multicultural organisation or business and wants to create a culture of creativity and innovation based on diversity.”

— John Mattone, Global Gurus #2 Executive Coach in the World

“This book cuts to the chase as to why business owners and executives fail in new markets and cultures. It provides deep insights into the global challenges businesses face and delivers practical and innovative solutions you can profit from immediately. It’s destined to be the cross-cultural handbook of the decade.”

— Jason Jennings, worldwide bestselling author of The High Speed Company, The Reinventors, Less Is More, and Think BIG—Act Small

“David is a very rare and special talent, and as with all those who were born to make a difference to our world, he openly shares his learning, insights, and experiences for our betterment. A book for everyone and anyone you care about. An essential guide for the times we live in.”

—    René Carayol, MBE, CEO, Inspired Leaders Network

Competition

The Transformation to Effective Global Leadership: The impact of cross-cultural behavior and motivation on Global Leadership practices and approaches

By Dr. José Annibal Torres

Published by DrTangLv; 1 edition (2016)

As the world becomes more and more independent and interrelated, the need to understand how to transform an effective leader to an effective global leader is now more important than ever. The researcher argues that leaders and followers must develop a mutual trust, and mutual respect. Further, mutual trust and respect require effective communication. And communication differs from culture to culture. Equally important, is the approach to conflict management, which differs from culture to culture. Additionally, integrity and honesty is viewed differently in different cultures. To this end, this book highlights the elements required to transform an effective domestic leader to an effective global leader. It further posits that cross-cultural, and country-specific cultural training is required prior to any international assignment. This book also highlights how different leaders have been unprepared when accepting a foreign assignment; and the leadership qualities that are preferred.

Global Leadership: The Next Generation

By Marshall Goldsmith Ph.D. and Cathy Greenberg

Published by Pearson FT Press; 1 edition (May 8, 2003)

The follow-up to Marshall Goldsmith's 500,000-copy bestseller "The Leader of the Future, " "Global Leadership: The Next Generation" systematically identifies what tomorrow's leaders will need to know, do and believe in order to successfully lead the global enterprise of the future.

Drawing on the results of an extraordinary 2-year Accenture study of emerging business leaders, this book shows why the skills of today's global leaders won't be enough--and why tomorrow's leaders won't resemble today's. Goldsmith and his co-authors first identify five new "factors of leadership" and their implications: global thinking, appreciation of diversity, technological savvy, a willingness to partner and an openness to sharing leadership. They explain what it will mean to lead in an era where intellectual capital is the dominant source of value; how to lead people whose backgrounds and values may be radically dissimilar from yours; and why achieving personal self-mastery is now a fundamental prerequisite for leading others.

Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success

By David Livermore Ph.D. and Soon Ang Ph.D.

AMACOM; 2 edition (April 8, 2015)

Business today is global—and success requires a new set of skills. But not to worry, whether you're negotiating with vendors in Asia, exploring potential markets in Africa, or leading a diverse team at home, you don't have to master the nuances of every culture you encounter. With Cultural Intelligence, or CQ, you can lead effectively in any context.

Featuring fresh research, case studies, and statistics on the ROI of improving your CQ, this new edition of Leading with Cultural Intelligence details a powerful, four-step model for becoming more adept at managing across cultures.

Culture Clash 2: Managing the Global High Performance Team (Global Leader Series)

By Thomas D. Zweifel

SelectBooks; 1 edition (July 16, 2013)

Sweden's Electrolux wondered why its vacuum cleaners did not sell in the United States. When someone realized its slogan "Nothing sucks like Electrolux" did not sell, it was too late...Don't know how to enter a strategic market? Can't get global alliances aligned? Flying blind in international meetings? Facing cross-border conflicts? Lost in translation?

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and blind spots can be costly--from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia professor and award-winning author of bestsellers like Strategy-In-Action and The Rabbi and the CEO, unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of helping managers in 100+ countries produce breakthroughs --a fool-proof system for success across borders. And post-9/11, BRICS and e-commerce have made this expanded edition of Culture Clash indispensable.

Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis

By Simon Western and Eric-Jean Garcia

SAGE Publications Ltd; 1 edition (May 14, 2018)

Dr Éric-Jean Garcia received a PhD in Higher Education & Leadership Development from the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL) and holds an MBA from the University of Dallas (Texas, USA). Éric-Jean is Affiliate Professor of Leadership at Sciences Po, Paris (France), where he leads several leadership programmes in Executive Education. He is also an international keynote speaker, and advisor in leadership for business and public organizations and author of two award-winning books: Leadership (De Boeck, 2011) and Le génie du leadership (Dunod, 2013). Through his work, Éric-Jean seeks to foster critical thinking, challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and beliefs, reveal dilemmas of leadership and advocate the development of contextually and ethically relevant organizational strategies.