Across Cultures and Contexts, Geographies and Sectors, Praise for Boundary Spanning Leadership…
In this deeply insightful look at the demands on 21st century leaders, Ernst and Chrobot-Mason outline six boundary spanning leadership practices derived from case studies and research with thousands of participating managers. This work is bound to be one of the most important management books of the decade.
—David A. Thomas, Ph.D., H. Naylor Fitzhugh professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Fostering a culture of teamwork among business units and partners is crucial for bottom-line success. This groundbreaking book, packed with practical examples and based on solid research, shows us how to get started.
—Marc Noël, chairman, Noël Group LLC
Few books capture the needs and narrative of today’s business and so elegantly lay out a plan to address its challenges. Boundary Spanning Leadership nails this…Consume it and play you’re role!
—Andy Stefanovich, chief curator and provocateur, Prophet
Leaders often struggle to move teams forward because they look for solutions only within their own context. The authors draw on rigorous global research and real-world experience to help leaders move into new frontiers where they can find answers and practices for creating success.
—Jack Stahl, former CEO, Revlon & president/COO, Coca-Cola company
The future will be punctuated by new spans across old boundaries. This book shows you how to improve your “span ability”.
—Bob Johansen, Ph.D., Institute for the Future Distinguished Fellow, author of the bestselling Get There Early and Leaders Make the Future.
Understanding boundaries so organizations can successfully explore and push into new frontiers is a challenge for every leader in almost all undertakings. Ernst and Chrobot-Mason help us better understand the power of teams working collaboratively together.
—Vice Admiral Cutler Dawson (USN Ret.), president & CEO, Navy Federal Credit Union
Many colleges and universities are searching for new, innovative interdisciplinary ways to teach students and develop knowledge, making the ability to work effectively across boundaries more crucial than ever. Ernst and Chrobot-Mason offer smart, practical insights that can greatly enhance how educators work together to create future generations of leaders.
—Thomas W. Ross, president, University of North Carolina School System
This book helps you build the essential boundary spanning capabilities you need to lead people fractured by strongly held values, beliefs, feelings, and practices that seem impossible to reconcile. The authors share wisdom and experiences from around the globe in a book rich with examples, tools, tactics, and cautionary pitfalls—stories that touch your heart and boost your leadership potential.
—Victoria J. Marsick, Ph.D., professor of Education & co-director J.M. Huber Institute, Columbia University
I have had the privilege to apply the author’s practical thought leadership in my business roles since 2005. Now Ernst and Chrobot-Mason have created a next-generation classic to share what will quickly become a must read guide to leading in the global economy.
—Greg Pryor, vice president, Leadership and Organization Effectiveness, Juniper Networks
Our deepening interdependence with each other is an undeniable reality, a frightening challenge, and a remarkable opportunity. This book boldly guides us into this rapidly emerging new global reality, showing us the simplicity on the other side of the complexity, illuminating insights and skills each of us can use to lead powerfully in the 21st century.
—Max Klau, Ph.D., director of Leadership Development, City Year, Inc.
The globally diverse backgrounds and multiple stakeholder groups that comprise today’s organizations demand the innovative leadership approaches espoused in Boundary Spanning Leadership. The authors’ timely toolset draws from extensive, deep experience and research and describes in detail how to overcome the numerous challenges that dissimilar teams pose to leaders.
—Norty Turner, vice president and general manager, Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, EMEA and India
The biggest challenge in a matrix organization is connecting the dots to unlock value. Boundary Spanning Leadership provides practical tools to constructively remove silos, neutralize negative politics, and put in place the conditions to achieve outstanding results
—Kevin Dooley, global head of HR Communications and Employer Brand and Marketing, Deutsche Bank
Working across boundaries is key to successfully running a global business. The authors have written a superb book which provides today’s leaders with the necessary insights and tools to steer successfully through times of transition.
—Guy Kempfert, global head Learning & Development, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
This book articulates a concept we believe is critical to our success at Lenovo: Businesses that transform cultural differences into organizational strengths, that focus intensely on building a unified global team, and that make their culture a top priority at every level have the best chance to succeed and build an enduring, winning company.”
—Kenneth DiPietro, senior vice president, HR Lenovo
For too long organizations have struggled with how best to nurture important collaborations across boundaries of time, space, expertise and hierarchy. Ernst and Chrobot-Mason identify and make actionable critical practices to help any leader obtain a multiplier effect from their talent. A must read!
—Rob Cross, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce and author of Driving Results Through Social Networks and The Hidden Power of Social Networks.
Boundary Spanning Leadership brings elusive concepts to life with practical processes illustrated by inspiring stories and action tips. It’s a common sense approach to navigating the complex world we experience every day. Timely and timeless–read it now!
—Ernie Turner, president, LIM (Leadership in International Management), author of Action Reflection Learning: Solving Real Business Problems by Connecting Earning with Learning.
Silos, stovepipes, and narrow conceptions of role and identity beware: This groundbreaking book helps people work together more constructively despite your efforts!
—Richard Hughes, Ph.D., senior author of best-selling textbook Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience.
Ernst and Chrobot-Mason distill the transformational power of boundary spanning leadership into an intuitively sound and inspirationally coherent practice. This book is as valuable as anything we’ve seen before in conflict transformation and bridging communities of all kinds: deceptively simple solutions to profoundly complex issues of building cultures of peace.
—Mark Johnson, Ph.D., executive director, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Boundary Spanning Leadership reminds leaders of the critical need to connect with diverse stakeholders by finding common ground as individual human beings.
—Shalini Mahtani, founder, Community Business Asia
Few of us know how to work in a world where everything influences everything else. Finally, we have a guide. Grounded in a persuasive philosophy, Ernst and Chrobot-Mason’s new book offers the pragmatic skills we have been searching for, but, until now, have eluded us.
—Nancy Adler, Ph.D., S. Bronfman Chair in Management, McGill University, Canada and author of the best-seller, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior.
Boundary Spanning Leadership offers a wealth of insights on how to lead effectively across differences. It is sure to be an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to be a better leader.
—David V. Day, Ph.D., Woodside Professor of Leadership and Management, University of Western Australia Business School
At last, a practitioner oriented book, based on solid research, that enables leaders, regardless of the country where they are employed, to inspire culturally diverse teams.
—Gary Latham, Ph.D., secretary of state professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Leading difference is one of the most important cross-sector challenges that leaders encounter. Through hands-on practical advice, illustrated by compelling stories of success, Ernst and Chrobot-Mason have fashioned a multi-dimensional framework for spanning boundaries and leading across groups.
—Nick Barker, Ph.D., director, Asia Pacific Leadership Program, East-West Center
