Category: Communication

5 Unusual Statements that Reveal how Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Thinks

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Hanneke Siebelink

What is your first thought when you hear the name Jack Ma? The king of e- and mobile commerce? The richest man in China? How did the founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group (Alibaba’s recent IPO was the largest in world history) build his success, and that of the countless people using Alibaba’s trading platforms? What lessons does he want to share?

Category: Communication, Customer Service, Leadership Tags: Alibaba, Alipay, Business Transformation, China, Davos 2015, Jack Ma, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, New York Times, Team Diversity, Trust

Leading Innovation: The One Important Aspect Executives Tend to Underestimate

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Hanneke Siebelink

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Inventing new and better products, technologies, and business models. Experimenting. Realizing smart breakthroughs. We all know that innovation is crucial to stay competitive in today’s business world. Much has been written on how to boost innovation, but do executive leaders…

Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Culture Change Tags: Elon Musk, Innovation, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organizational Culture, Tesla Motors

Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Aad Boot

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Business leaders of multinational organizations are often confronted with cross-cultural differences. These differences can cause misunderstandings and awkward situations between people. Especially when people feel they are losing Face. Face – an Eastern concept most likened to the Western concept…

Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Leadership, People Skills Tags: China, Chinese culture, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cross-Team Collaboration, Management, Multinational Corporation, People Alignment

Leading Change: How Focus Creates Sustainable Change

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Aad Boot

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You hear and read about it everywhere: if you want to create successful and sustained change in your company, it is important to be focused and to transfer that focus to your people and teams. In the turbulence of the…

Category: Communication, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Vision Tags: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Change, Financial services, Focus, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Senior Management, Sustainability

The People Alignment Compass – Part 1

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Aad Boot

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

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Aad Boot

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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 alignment…

Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Leadership, Leadership Alignment Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Culture, People Alignment

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

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Aad Boot

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In working with multinational companies we see three specific changes that affect the role of senior leaders. Three changes that require special attention and sometimes even a fundamental mind shift. Read more …

Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Team Work Tags: Asia, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Emerging markets, Executive Coaching, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Multinational Corporation

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

Posted on December 17, 2011 by 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…

Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Post Merger Integration, Team Work Tags: Asia, Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cultural Alignment, Cultural Identity, Dishonesty, Education and Training, Executive Coaching, Honesty, Leadership, Management

Leading Change: How Great Leaders Deal with Criticism

Posted on July 27, 2011 by 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…

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

Leaders Who Create Alignment: Two Historical Examples

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Aad Boot

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