Tag Archives: Business

How Does Your Team Make Decisions?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

The People Alignment Compass – Part 2 A leaders’ guide to mastering the Essence of People Alignment in today’s business reality. Welcome! The People Alignment Compass is a new initiative on Leadershipwatch. The People Alignment Compass provides tips and insights … Continue reading →

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The People Alignment Compass – Part 1

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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A leaders’ guide to mastering the Essence of People Alignment in today’s business reality. Welcome! The People Alignment Compass is a new initiative on Leadershipwatch. The People Alignment Compass provides tips and insights on how leaders can create people alignment. … Continue reading →

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Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 3)

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

This series is about people alignment as a crucial competence for today’s leaders. Especially in a globalized world, where cross-cultural and multinational challenges are becoming more and more a normal part of the leader’s job. Successful leaders create people … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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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 Innovation: Why Executives Should Stimulate People to Make (Better) Mistakes

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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Some while ago I was working with a senior executive team. The team was leading a global division and was facing a complex change that involved four continents. They organized a session together to align as a team on the … Continue reading →

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Cross-Cultural Leadership: How Misinterpretations of Dishonesty Can Destroy Team Alignment

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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When leading change, for instance in post merger integrations, leadership teams are very often confronted with cross-cultural differences. These can be corporate or national culture differences. Not dealing with these cultural differences effectively can have a serious impact on leadership … Continue reading →

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Leading Change: Three Major Misconceptions That Hinder Innovation

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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These days almost every organization is discussing the need for innovation. There is no CEO that talks with me about the company’s strategic drivers without mentioning ‘building more innovation power’. Every government is claiming innovation to be one of its … Continue reading →

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Leading Change: How Great Leaders Deal with Criticism

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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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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Post Merger Integration: Cultural Alignment is a Prerequisite for Value Creation

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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Post Merger Integration research over the past 15 years has shown that a great deal of mergers and acquisitions did not yield the desired value as was previously stated. Although success rates are difficult to compare, most surveys point to … Continue reading →

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Leading Change in the 21st Century: The Power of Letting Go

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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The story goes that the hunters put an apple in a glass jar with a narrow opening and leave the jar deep into the jungle under a tree. In the evening the monkeys come out of the trees triggered by … Continue reading →

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Leading Change: Breaking Through the Fear of Mistakes

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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“The team is already four months involved in this change process. They are completely informed on the reasons for the change and the objectives that were set by the executive board. The phase of not knowing or misunderstanding is passed … Continue reading →

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Leading Change: What does Change mean to You?

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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The other day I heard a senior leader say: “More than ever we live in times of change. Our organization will have to face the fact that what was will disappear. We will have to adjust and reinvent ourselves or … Continue reading →

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Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Build Mutual Trust?

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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For leaders of today’s and tomorrow’s businesses the ability to connect people and build successful teams in cross-cultural environments is a crucial competency. Many companies operate in globalized markets and leadership has to deal with cross-cultural differences. How do modern … Continue reading →

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Post Merger Integration: Who is your Enemy?

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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My sons play baseball. They love the game and are both playing in the same team. It is a team of young kids between 11 and 14 years old and living in Brussels gives an extra flavor to their team; … Continue reading →

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Organization Development: The True Meaning of ‘People come First’

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Leadershipwatch - Aad Boot

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A few weeks ago I received an unexpected call from a senior executive (I will call him Thomas) of a company I worked with some years ago. We had not seen each other for a long time and it was … Continue reading →