Chapter 5

The Practices in Action

The previous chapter identified and defined the five practices of successful internationalists. This chapter will translate those practices from the personal to the organizational and will illustrate what happens when global-thinking, highly flexible, and creative internationalists conceive and manage global-facing companies and projects. When companies employ their talents and institutionalize their vision, the companies themselves—or at least the divisions in which internationalists reign—take on the characteristics of creativity, flexibility, and the ability to embrace new ways and changes. These case studies are the five practices in action, where the principals act on their own global vision and that of ...

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