“Global Mindset”: Our #1 Amazon Bestseller on Cross‑Cultural Leadership (Now on Audible)

The world is global. Leadership often isn’t.

Organizations today operate in more global environments than ever: dispersed teams, cross‑border projects, customers across multiple markets, and supply chains spanning every region. Yet many leaders still rely on a mindset shaped by a single culture, market, or way of working your social strategy.

That gap, between a global reality and a local mindset, is where strategies stall, teams go quiet, and promising talent is overlooked. It’s also the gap that inspired McKinney Consulting’s founder, Steve McKinney, together with his co‑author, Bryan McKinney, to write GLOBAL MINDSET: A Guide for Cross‑Cultural Leadership.

The book was launched on May 5, 2026. Since then, our firm has continued refining how we bring its ideas to clients and leaders worldwide. Today, we’re formally introducing it here, now available in hardcover, softcover, e‑book, and Audible audiobook formats.

You can find all formats and details on the dedicated book page HERE.

Why we wrote GLOBAL MINDSET

GLOBAL MINDSET was born from decades of McKinney Consulting’s work:

• Leading and supporting business across Asia, Europe, and North America. linkedin
• Delivering executive search and leadership advisory services for multinational organizations. linkedin
• Coaching senior leaders as they navigate cross‑cultural complexity in real time. linkedin

We repeatedly observed leaders being promoted to international responsibilities without being fully equipped to understand and integrate the cultures in which they operated. Good intentions weren’t enough; they needed practical tools to think and act differently.

Our aim with this book is straightforward:

To provide leaders and organizations with a clear, usable framework for building a global mindset, and to show how that mindset translates into everyday decisions, behaviors, and relationships across cultures.

GLOBAL MINDSET doesn’t just describe cross‑cultural leadership in theory. During launch week, GLOBAL MINDSET reached the #1 bestseller position in the Global Marketing category on Amazon Kindle, underscoring the urgency of this topic for leaders worldwide.

It offers:

• Concrete models to understand how culture shapes expectations, communication, and trust.
• Stories drawn from real executive, team, and organizational experiences. linkedin
• Reflection questions and practices that can be applied in leadership teams and development programs.

What the book covers

Here are some of the key themes addressed in GLOBAL MINDSET:

• Mindset versus geography
  Why global titles and international assignments do not automatically translate into global thinking, and how organizations can move beyond relying on geography as a proxy for “global leadership.”
• Seeing through multiple lenses
  How culture influences what stakeholders consider respectful, urgent, risky, or trustworthy, and how leaders can learn to interpret situations through multiple lenses before acting.
• Leading across difference without losing organizational identity
  Practical ways to adapt leadership and communication to local context while remaining aligned with core values and strategic objectives.
• Building global‑ready leaders and successors
  How to identify, develop, and promote talent that can lead across borders, not just within one market.
• Turning friction into strategic insight
  How to use cross‑cultural misalignment or misunderstanding as data for learning and improvement, rather than as reasons to retreat or assign blame.

The book is designed for CEOs, CHROs, regional leaders, and managers of multicultural or multinational teams, as well as HR and talent professionals responsible for global leadership capability. However, many leaders may still think this is only relevant for expats or HR, when in fact any leader who works on a Zoom call with three time zones is already a cross-cultural leader, whether they realize it or not.

Available formats – meeting leaders where they are

To support diverse learning preferences and schedules, GLOBAL MINDSET is available in four formats:

• Hardcover – A durable reference for executives and leadership teams to keep in boardrooms and offices.
• Softcover – A more portable, shareable edition for managers and emerging leaders.
• E‑book – Instant, searchable access for distributed teams and global leaders.
• Audible audiobook – An audio format for leaders who use commute and travel time to deepen their thinking.

All formats are accessible via the book page.

Early momentum: articles and upcoming conversations

Since GLOBAL MINDSET was released, the concepts have been featured and expanded in additional channels:

• An article examining why global mindset, not geography, is the real leadership differentiator for boards, CEOs, and HR leaders.
• A piece in a global executive publication outlining the “Global Mindset Premium” as a new performance standard for the C‑Suite.
• A series of podcast conversations exploring how global mindset applies to everyday leadership decisions, sales, and organizational culture.

Each of these reinforces the book’s central message: in a fragmented, fast‑moving world, leaders and organizations that invest in global mindset capabilities outperform those that rely primarily on structural or geographic reach.

Over the coming days, we will publish follow‑up insights that connect these articles and conversations directly to the frameworks and practices in GLOBAL MINDSET and to our work with clients.

How organizations can use GLOBAL MINDSET

Here are practical ways organizations can put the book to use:

• Executive teams and boards
  Use chapters as discussion anchors in strategy and risk‑management sessions, especially when evaluating cross‑border initiatives, M&A, and expansions.
• HR and talent functions
  Incorporate global mindset into leadership competency models, assessment criteria, succession planning, and executive search mandates.
• Multinational and multicultural teams
  Facilitate shared reading or listening and use the reflection questions to surface assumptions, clarify expectations, and strengthen collaboration.

GLOBAL MINDSET is designed as a working tool that can inform leadership decisions, talent processes, and organizational culture, not just as a one‑time read.

Invitation and next steps

If your organization’s footprint is global or rapidly expanding, treating global mindset as a formal leadership capability is no longer optional, it is strategic.

The question is no longer whether your operations are global.
The question is whether your leaders’ mindsets are.

You can:

• Visit the GLOBAL MINDSET book page to select the format that best suits your leaders and teams:
• Explore McKinney Consulting’s executive search and leadership consulting services.
• Contact us via our Contact page to discuss how GLOBAL MINDSET can be integrated into your leadership development programs, executive onboarding, or board education.