In today’s highly competitive and dynamic business environment, organizations need to do more than just improve—they need to innovate. In The Multicultural Mind, David C. Thomas uncovers a hidden force of innovation in organizations—multiculturals, or individuals with multiple cultural identities. By developing well-planned experiential programs, organizations can model the ways in which multicultural minds develop, foster more complex ways of thinking among their employees, and increase their chances for both innovation and success.
Strategy and management advice is often unreliable. Most lessons derived from companies that have achieved extraordinary results typically do not account for the factors of chance, coincidence, or random fluctuations. In The Three Rules, Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed argue that there are only three rules every company must follow in order to become exceptional. Through a series of case studies featuring companies from a number of industries, this book identifies these fundamental strategies and illustrates how they determine whether companies’ performances will be miraculous, sustainable, or simply average.
