Book recommendation:
Global Fitness for Global People, Helen Spencer-Oatey, Peter Franklin, Domna Lazidou (2022)
In today's rapidly changing and uncertain environment, people need sound insights and guiding principles to shape their actions. Global Fitness for Global People prepares you for this challenge, providing you with a set of core principles and tools that you can apply flexibly and dynamically to meet your own and your organisation's needs - now and in a changing future.
Global Fitness addresses three key areas - establishing your Global Fitness goals, mastering your Global Fitness toolkit, and moulding the Global Fitness environment. The approach of Global Fitness for Global People is in line with the Chinese saying "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
Global Fitness for Global People uses thought-provoking authentic examples from a wide variety of situations to illustrate important learning points. It draws on state-of-the-art research and practice to explain the key issues and offers you reflective guidelines and activities for professional development purposes. The book is essential reading if you are leading, managing, or working in culturally diverse situations and hence need Global Fitness in order to achieve effective collaboration.
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