Category: Leadership
Benjamin Franklin’s example shows how self-cultivation can be a smart strategy for leaders determined to survive and thrive in disruptive times. Looking back on a recent trip to Philadelphia (费城), the city where the USA was born, two things made…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Discipline, Executive Coaching, Expert Series, Focus, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Self Improvement, Skills of the Future
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
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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When you are leading your business team through complex change your team’s success will to a large extent depend on the level of transparency you are able to establish. The power of transparency is often underestimated. The true meaning of…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Asian Cultures, Corporate Change, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Leading Change, Multinational Corporation, Program Management, Teamwork, Transparency, VUCA
Find here the Top 10 articles selected by our readers over 2015 For the fourth year in a row LeadershipWatch has welcomed an amazing amount of new readers, and together they selected the top 10 most popular articles over 2015….
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What ancient Chinese wisdom teaches today’s leaders in times of complex change. “Lao Zi was a native of Chu, a southern state in the Zhou dynasty. His surname was Li; his given name was Er, and he was also called…
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Over the past 25 years I have been involved in various complex change programs for companies in all kinds of markets and circumstances. But in the past years I have seen the world of Business Transformation, Program and Project Management change substantially. I will share my insights and highlight 3 vital elements that determine the success of change programs in today’s business reality. In this article I focus on the first element: Stimulate your people to think and communicate in terms of impact.
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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?
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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
Not so long ago, I was asked by a client to help with the rollout of a large corporate transformation program. One thing quickly became clear: producing tangible results will in large part depend on the quality of collaboration between…
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Category: Change Management, Leadership, Leading Change
Tags: Business Performance, Business Transformation, Collaboration, Consulting, Corporate Change, Fortune 500, High Performance Teams, Program Management, Strategy Execution, Strategy Road Map
Did you ever hear the story of how Cees (‘Case’) Links, whose boyish face lights up behind his glasses when he recounts it now, convinced Steve Jobs to embrace Wi-Fi, the wireless internet technology he co-invented? He spent almost a decade pursuing the idea, which nobody thought particularly useful. Until finally, in 2000, the tipping point arrived.
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