Category: Business Transformation
Successful teams act out of a common focus, a sense of direction, and team members ‘own’ decisions as if they were their own. But reaching and maintaining this state takes conscious effort. Even in the best teams team members can…
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For leaders in today’s unpredictable world this quote of Abraham Lincoln is very relevant. Let’s take a closer look at what it means. When the British still had an Empire (ruled by Queen Victoria) and a weak China was forced…
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I just returned from a trip to Hyderabad (visiting my Indian colleagues and teams that work on the corporate transformation program I’m leading for a European retail company) when I came across an interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Corporate Change, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Google, Hyderabad, India, Leading Teams, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, Sundar Pichai, Technology
Benjamin Franklin’s example shows how self-cultivation can be a smart strategy for leaders determined to survive and thrive in disruptive times. Looking back on a recent trip to Philadelphia (费城), the city where the USA was born, two things made…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Discipline, Executive Coaching, Expert Series, Focus, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Self Improvement, Skills of the Future
In these time of relentless technological and business change, resilience is starting to receive renewed attention, and is climbing higher on the leadership agenda. Resilience encompasses the ability to recover quickly from setbacks, to respond positively to change, to see…
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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