Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agilent Technologies : global leadership training with an on-the-job focus / Teresa Roche and Cal Wick -- The Boppy Company : optimizing a global workforce / Brian Wilkerson and Teresa Mead -- Colgate-Palmolive Company : globally valuing people / Donna B. McNamara, Mitra Chappell, and Robert S. Browning -- The Dow Chemical Company : recognizing and developing top talent / Robert E. Tucker and Marcia L. Thomas -- Intercontinental Hotels Group : aligning leadership around a single global strategy / Andrew Simpson and James Dowling -- Johnson & Johnson : training global leaders for supply chain innovation / Maya Hu-Chan, Charles Bergman, and Michael Frugé -- McDonalds Corporation : improving a global leadership talent development and management system / James Intagliata, Neal Kulick, and Donald Crosby -- Motorola University : transferring skills through strategic alliance / Xiaozhen Yan and William J. Rothwell -- Pfizer Inc : a behavior-based approach to training leaders in transition / Betsy Blee, Joe Bonito, and Robert E. Tucker -- Tower Automotive, Inc. : global relocation of technical services / Kishen Kavikondala -- UNICEF : globally developing in-house careers / Rudolph Messinger and William J. Rothwell -- Verizon Dominicana : empowering leadership teams / Mark Sobol and Jorge Iván Ramírez -- Volvo : a global shared learning program for three brands / Nilou Sardari, Ulf Jeverstam, and Greg Zlevor -- Wyeth : evolving forms of global leadership training and follow-up / Tim Fidler, Jeffrey Peris, and David Giber -- Appendix : about Linkage and the summit.