{"id":21035,"date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/world-book-day\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:58:10","slug":"world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/world-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14902 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/world-Book-Day-logo-2014.png\" alt=\"&quot;World Book Day&quot;\" width=\"134\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s World Book Day in the UK (United Kingdom) where I live, and in true cross cultural style, \u00a0the rest of the World will be celebrating on April 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>This apparently has something to do with April 23 being St George&#8217;s Day &#8211; our patron saint. We don&#8217;t generally make much of a fuss over the day, but t<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">he date difference works rather well for us at Global Integration, because that gives us just over six weeks to ask you for nominations for your best business book. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">We regularly run reviews on this blog, so if you&#8217;ve read something great, have a recommendation, or would simply love one of our consultants to review something, we&#8217;d like to hear about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If we pick your suggestion for review, we&#8217;ll send you a signed copy of <a title=\"Making the Matrix Work\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/matrix-management\/making-matrix-work-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making the Matrix Work<\/a> or <a title=\"Speed Lead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/virtual-teams\/speed-lead-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speed Lead<\/a> by Kevan Hall, and one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20th birthday<\/a> mugs as a thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nominations stay open until April 23. Because it helps that we already know the subject areas &#8211; and it&#8217;s easier to dedicate the time for reading and reviewing &#8211;\u00a0we&#8217;re particularly interested in book recommendations relating to the things that we help people with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matrix organizations\/working<\/li>\n<li>Remote\/virtual working<\/li>\n<li>Global working<\/li>\n<li>Networked organizations<\/li>\n<li>Working with external partners<\/li>\n<li>Outsourcing<\/li>\n<li>The people\/HR issues in \u00a0M&amp;As (Mergers and acquisitions)<\/li>\n<li>Management and Leadership<\/li>\n<li>Workplace efficiency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(But don&#8217;t let this hold you back!)<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s over to you &#8211; nominate away!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s World Book Day in the UK (United Kingdom) where I live, and in true cross cultural style, \u00a0the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-matrix-management","training-virtual-teams"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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