Global Wealth, Local Impact

How Supply Chains Build Thriving Companies, Cultures, and Countries

De: Stephanie Forbes

Narrado por: Stephanie Forbes, Grant Linneberg

From ancient empires to modern megacorporations, Global Wealth, Local Impact reveals how the unseen machinery of global value chains drives wealth, power, and influence - and why mastering them is today's ultimate leadership advantage.

From ancient Roman roads built to last a thousand years to the rise of 3D printing redefining global manufacturing and trade, Global Wealth, Local Impact reveals how supply chains are - and always have been - the engines of local and global prosperity.

Drawing on millennia of history and more than two decades of hands-on leadership in supply chain strategy, Stephanie Forbes delivers a practical and compelling guide to mastering value chains in an ever more volatile world. With sharp insights and a touch of wit, she shows how the timeless lessons of the great trade routes can be applied to today's challenges - from inflationary pressures to global disruption.

Organized around the following essential themes, this audiobook equips leaders to:

• Ground strategy in history's enduring lessons - The Great Trade Routes.
• Build more resilient operations through Tactical Mastery and Strategic Vision.
• Master influence with The Art of Negotiation and the Negotiation Playbook.
• Strengthen cooperative growth through Partnerships and Alliances.
• Tackle Inflation and Economic Pressures with agility.
• Identify What to Measure to ensure governance, accountability, and in the end, results.
• Prepare for Global Events that test resilience yet ensure positive results.
• Shape The Future of Value Chains in a rapidly shifting and more destabilized world.

Global Wealth, Local Impact is a necessary playbook for anyone who wants to thrive in complexity, anticipate disruption, and leave a legacy of resilience.

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