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    Leading global transformations
    By Anand Narasimhan and Jean-Louis Barsoux
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    This book identifies and addresses the seven transformation journeys that are reshaping corporations today.

    It integrates and builds on the collective experience and learning of IMD’s professors, who work directly with many organizations around the world and observe their transformation struggles at close range.

    By taking a holistic and interdisciplinary view of how organizations are transforming themselves, IMD’s faculty accompany global executives – as individuals and as leaders of global corporations – on their transformation journeys.

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    Category: International Business/Globalization
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    International Institute for Management Development
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