Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders are more and more facing cross-cultural challenges caused by globalization, emerging economies and new markets. How to notice differences in cultures? How to understand their impact on people behavior and performance? How to avoid cross-cultural friction…
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Category: Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, People Skills
Tags: Asia, Business, China, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Emerging markets, India, Intercultural Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, LeadershipWatch, Management, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Culture
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 …
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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
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
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
Yesterday it was Independence Day – 4th of July. An important day for America. I was reading mails and tweets from American friends and got inspired by it to write this short piece. I am not American, but maybe my…
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Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Team Work, Vision
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence, European Union, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, People Alignment, Robert Schuman, Thomas Jefferson, United States, United States Declaration of Independence
“We decided on a clear strategy, but up to now we still didn’t succeed to put this strategy into action.” “How many times do I have to convince my people that this change is necessary for us? They clearly told…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leading Change, Team Work
Tags: Alignment, Business, Change Management, Lead change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Change, People Alignment