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Leadership: What is The Essence of Building Trust
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…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: Jacques Rogge on Negotiating with the Chinese
Jacques Rogge, Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), speaks with a surprisingly soft voice. I had the chance to meet him last week, when he – invited by The Antwerp Forum – shared his insights on ‘How to…
Read MoreLeading Change: 3 Reasons Why Great Leaders Are Reluctant to Compromise
The other day I watched a political leader proclaim with great pride what a huge success this compromise was. How they had reached it after long and exhausting negotiations. This was truly a great solution that would change the future…
Read MoreLeading Change: How Focus Creates Sustainable Change
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…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series I wrote about the importance of 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…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 1)
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…
Read MoreLeading Change: What About the Coaching Skills of Senior Leaders?
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,…
Read MoreLeading Change: How Great Leaders Deal with Criticism
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…
Read MoreLeaders Who Create Alignment: Two Historical Examples
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…
Read MoreLeading Change in the 21st Century: The Power of Letting Go
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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