Accountability is a crucial ingredient of successful collaboration, and it is often underestimated. Read here 4 valuable tips to make your team embrace accountability …
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Being able to build trust is regarded as a crucial element of successful leadership. Especially in today’s globalized business world with its high rate of change and its cross-cultural challenges. But what is the essence of building trust? What does…
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Category: Business Transformation, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Skills
Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Emerging markets, Financial services, Globalization, Leading Change, Team Alignment, Trust, Trustworthiness
In today’s business reality the level of complexity and the increased rate of change cause challenges for many leaders. Motivating people to change direction, building new strategies, transforming business models, and adopting new ways of collaboration. Quite a job! Especially…
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Category: Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leading Change
Tags: Business Transformation, China, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Tsinghua University, Vision, World Bank
Some time ago this executive team contacted me. They were dealing with important market changes that affected their business. There was an urgent need for change in the organization and they had defined a set of strategic objectives that would…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Development, Vision
Tags: Conference Board, Corporate Change, Gary Hamel, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, LeadershipWatch, Management, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, Senior Management
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
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Business, Good to Great, Jim Collins, Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Teams, Management, Organization Development, People Alignment, Richard Branson
In my earlier post Why Alignment is crucial for those who Lead Change I explained how a lack of alignment can lead to compliance instead of commitment and how this can be a serious setback in achieving change. In all the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change
Tags: Alignment, Change Management, Commitment, Compliance, Lead change, Leadership, Management, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Teamwork