Category: Business Transformation
In these time of relentless technological and business change, resilience is starting to receive renewed attention/ is climbing higher on the leadership agenda. Resilience encompasses the ability to recover quickly from setbacks, to respond positively to change, to see the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Allene Tew, Chinese culture, Harvard Business Review, High Performance Teams, Innovation, Jack Ma, Martin Seligman, Qi Gong, Resilience, Team Alignment, Technology, World Economic Forum
Find here the top 5 most read articles on leading complex change and cross-cultural collaboration on LeadershipWatch in 2017. Enjoy! 1) Organizational Alignment: The Power of Cross-Organizational Networks What will the organizations of tomorrow look like? Will they still hold…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leading Change
Tags: Business, Change Management, Chinese culture, Collaboration, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Harvard, Leading Innovation, Michael Puett, Organizational Change, Team Alignment
Let’s change the way we lead change! In one of our most-read articles here on Leadershipwatch ‘What Does Change Mean to You?’ I describe how change always has been and always will be a natural part of our lives. We’ve…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Cultural Change, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Leading Teams, Mindset, Organization Development, Organizational Change, Program Management, Project Management, Team Alignment
Teams that ceaselessly expand their limits can start showing signals of demotivation and decreasing trust in the team’s success if they do not take the time to consciously experience and embed the results achieved.
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Business Performance, Change Management, Cross-Team Collaboration, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Strategy Execution, Team Alignment, Team Diversity
Many corporate change programs fail to deliver the expected results. Gary Hamel, John Kotter, and others claim the failure rate to be around a staggering 70%. What is the role of executive teams here? How can executive teams increase the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leading Change
Tags: Communication, Corporate Change, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Gary Hamel, John Kotter, Multinational Corporation, People Alignment, Program Management, Project Management, Strategy, Strategy Execution
Find here the Top 5 leadership articles selected by our readers in 2016 In 2016 LeadershipWatch has again welcomed an amazing amount of readers, and we received lots of appreciation and nice reactions. Many thanks to you all! You are…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Accountability, Business Performance, China, Creativity, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Season's Greetings, Team, Team Alignment
Big data and complex algorithms are all around us. Machines are getting smarter by the day. They can help us make better decisions. Make our lives easier. But is machine intelligence always right? Big data and computer algorithms are all…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: AI, Algorithms, Bernard Marr, Big Data, Expert Series, Harvard, Innovation, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Machine Learning, Princeton, Technology, TED Talks, Transparency, Zeynep Tufekci
As business leader you are increasingly dealing with global business teams. For instance East-West business teams in which people from cultures you know rather well need to collaborate with people from cultures you are less familiar with. This is a…
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Asian Cultures, Business Performance, Chinese culture, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cross-Team Collaboration, Indian Culture, Intercultural Leadership, Japanese culture, Leadership Alignment, Leading Teams, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Dynamics
Curiosity is more than just a nice to have in today’s business context. It is essential to successfully navigate the rapid technological changes coming our way. For instance for my current client, a large retail company, which is facing significant…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership Skills
Tags: Accountability, Cross-Team Collaboration, Innovation, Leading Change, MITSloan, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, Skills of the Future, Strategy Execution
This summer I traveled to Beijing and Ningxia, thanks to the China Unlimited contest organized by the China EU Mission. I had hoped to learn more about China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative reviving the old silk roads (because it…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cultural Integration, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Business, China, Chinese culture, European Union, Global Trade, Innovation, Leadership, Mandarin, Ningxia University, OBOR, One Belt One Road, Silk Road