Category Archives: Leadership Development

Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 1)

Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders are more and more facing cross-cultural challenges caused by globalization, emerging economies and new markets. How to notice differences in cultures? How to understand their impact on people behavior and performance? How to avoid cross-cultural friction … Continue reading

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Leading Multinational Companies: Three Significant Changes in the Role of Senior Leaders

Today’s business environment is changing. A lot has been written in recent years about this change and its various aspects: globalization, emerging markets, different competitors, exponential rate of change, new technologies that change business models and market places, impact of … Continue reading

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Leading Change: What About the Coaching Skills of Senior Leaders?

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Senior leaders are confronted with an increasing rate of change and complexity and need to find ways to deal with it. Leading your company through change has become different from how it was ten to twenty years ago. Mobilizing employees, … Continue reading

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Leading Change: How Great Leaders Deal with Criticism

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We live in times of change. Shifting powers between West and East, technological evolutions, emerging countries and changing economic landscapes, financial systems that are under severe pressure, new innovative companies that change market places. As I described in an earlier … Continue reading

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Leaders Who Create Alignment: Two Historical Examples

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Yesterday it was Independence Day – 4th of July. An important day for America. I was reading mails and tweets from American friends and got inspired by it to write this short piece. I am not American, but maybe my … Continue reading

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Why Alignment is Crucial for those who Lead Change

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“We decided on a clear strategy, but up to now we still didn’t succeed to put this strategy into action.” “How many times do I have to convince my people that this change is necessary for us? They clearly told … Continue reading

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