Category: Change Management
A 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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Organization Development
Tags: Business, Change Management, Innovation, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Senior Management, Tim Harford
These days cultural change is a topic that is high on the agenda of many corporate executives. It looks like almost each change initiative within companies is linked to changing its culture. Many leaders proclaim that the ability to change/adjust…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leading Change
Tags: Aad Boot, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cultural Alignment, Cultural Change, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Transformation of Culture
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Business, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Culture, Peter Drucker, Strategic Management
We all see significant economic changes taking place around us. The financial crisis, emerging markets, new technologies are putting their stamp on our economies, on market places, and on businesses. Organizations face changing circumstances that require different approaches. Yesterday’s success…
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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,…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, People Skills
Tags: Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change
Recently I had the pleasure to travel around in China for a few weeks. Visiting a fair deal of the country, north and south, the big cities and a part of the country side. I came back with a truck…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Vision
Tags: Asia, China, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Alignment, Leadership, Leading Change, Martin Jacques, People Alignment, Western world
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, People Skills
Tags: Business, Change Management, Communication, Forbes, John Kotter, Lead change, Leadership, People Alignment
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Apple, Business, Change Management, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Change, Leadership, Leading Change, Organization Development
“The team is already four months involved in this change process. They are informed in detail about the reasons for the change and the objectives that were set by the executive board. The phase of ‘not knowing’ or ‘not understanding’…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Business, Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Change, Jim Collins, Lead change, Leadership, Leading Teams, Organization Development, Organizational Culture, People Alignment, Teamwork
You find two kinds of leaders, those who lead change as a continuous learning and improvement experience versus those who do not … yet. And their mental models are reflected in the successes people achieve. Read more …
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leading Change, Organization Development
Tags: BRIC, Business, Change Management, Emerging markets, Executive Coaching, Globalization, Innovation, Lead change, Leadership, Mental Model, Organizational Change