From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

An insider’s view of the challenges that big businesses face in the developing world: the opportunities, pitfalls, political and personal challenges involved.

Babs Omotowa has spent his life rejecting the status quo. His own career disproves the unthinking perception that Africans underperform in global businesses, and his insistence that issues such as community development, corruption, transparency and pollution belong on the corporate agenda alongside financial targets has helped big businesses to revolutionize their approach in the developing world.

The remarkable story of ‘Hurricane Babs’ – from storeroom keeper to global VP – showcases the issues that big businesses face in developing countries and reveals how multinational companies and leaders can best navigate these challenges: with integrity and courage.

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From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

An insider’s view of the challenges that big businesses face in the developing world: the opportunities, pitfalls, political and personal challenges involved.

Babs Omotowa has spent his life rejecting the status quo. His own career disproves the unthinking perception that Africans underperform in global businesses, and his insistence that issues such as community development, corruption, transparency and pollution belong on the corporate agenda alongside financial targets has helped big businesses to revolutionize their approach in the developing world.

The remarkable story of ‘Hurricane Babs’ – from storeroom keeper to global VP – showcases the issues that big businesses face in developing countries and reveals how multinational companies and leaders can best navigate these challenges: with integrity and courage.

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From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business

From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business

by Babs Omotowa
From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business

From Storeroom to Boardroom: How integrity and courage shapes global business

by Babs Omotowa

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***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

An insider’s view of the challenges that big businesses face in the developing world: the opportunities, pitfalls, political and personal challenges involved.

Babs Omotowa has spent his life rejecting the status quo. His own career disproves the unthinking perception that Africans underperform in global businesses, and his insistence that issues such as community development, corruption, transparency and pollution belong on the corporate agenda alongside financial targets has helped big businesses to revolutionize their approach in the developing world.

The remarkable story of ‘Hurricane Babs’ – from storeroom keeper to global VP – showcases the issues that big businesses face in developing countries and reveals how multinational companies and leaders can best navigate these challenges: with integrity and courage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788602341
Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date: 02/23/2021
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Babatunde (Babs) Jolayemi Omotowa worked for 26 years with Shell in Nigeria and Europe. Starting work in a storeroom, he rose to become CEO of Shell subsidiary Nigeria LNG and subsequently Vice-President across 40 countries. A former Global President of the UK Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, he has spoken at the World Economic Summit, Universityies such as Harvard and MIT, and at many global conferences.

He now works with multi-national companies and not-for-profit organizations to help them work more effectively in partnership with the developing world, recognizing the bigger issues involved and finding routes to success that are good not just for business but at a global and local level.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

About the Author

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Beginnings

Chapter 2 Determination

Chapter 3 Ambition

Chapter 4 Making Impact

Chapter 5 Vision

Chapter 6 Integrity

Chapter 7 Courage

Chapter 8 Relationships

Chapter 9 Reflections

References

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