Category: Latest on LeadershipWatch
What are the key skills for the future? In our special multi-part series, experts share valuable and surprising insights we can use to build tomorrow’s world. In this part Harvard professor Michael Puett explains the skill of breaking patterns and…
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Category: Latest on LeadershipWatch, People Skills
Tags: AI, Big Data, Books, Chinese culture, Confucius, Cross-Cultural Communication, Expert Series, Google, Harvard, Harvard Business Review, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Michael Puett, Patterns, Skills of the Future, The School of Life
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 East-West business teams. Leading these teams effectively has a great impact on the success of companies in today’s business reality.
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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
People confronted with the fast changes in our sometimes chaotic and uncertain world can have the reflex to close themselves off to the unknown. Consciously or subconsciously they adopt a closed mind. When we do it collectively this closeness can…
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Category: Business Transformation, Culture Change, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership Skills, People Skills
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, China, Cultural Differences, Elon Musk, Innovation, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Lego, Nelson Mandela, Openness, Skills of the Future
Our success, our feeling of accomplishment and our happiness, in our personal lives, as leaders, in our teams and in our businesses, it very much comes down to whether we ‘play to win’ or ‘play not to lose’. Are we…
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