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How to Avoid 3 Big Collaboration Traps? Morten Hansen’s Book Helps
Collaboration across functions and company units has become a top priority for firms in the United States, Europe and Asia (read more here). And yet too many collaborative efforts fail. A whopping 75 percent of cross-company teams are currently dysfunctional,…
Read MoreWhy Collaboration Is a Top Concern for Every Leader
A lack of cross-organizational collaboration can seriously hinder a company to execute its strategy successfully. How to make sure your organization is fast and flexible enough, that people and units align and combine their efforts quickly enough, that results are achieved? Read more about how to improve collaboration …
Read More3 Rules of Thumb for Building Smart Cross-Company Networks
How well do people in your company work together across organizational units? Is your company structure rather hierarchical and formal or does it stimulate people to create cross-company networks? Are people able to collaborate effectively with people working in different…
Read MoreOrganizational Alignment: The Power of Cross-Organizational Networks
How do organizations deal with the changes in today’s business environment? How do they keep up with the pace of change, let alone get ahead of it? How do they innovate and stay competitive? How do they increase their adaptability?…
Read MoreExecutive Team Alignment: The Power of Team Coaching
‘We should have had this discussion a long time ago. It would have saved us a lot of time and a lot of useless frustration.’ This was the feedback I received from executives during an executive team alignment session I…
Read MoreLeading Multinational Companies: The Difference between Execution versus Action
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…
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 MoreLeading Innovation: Why Executives Should Stimulate People to Make (Better) Mistakes
A while ago I was working with a senior executive team. The team was leading a global division and was facing a complex change that involved four continents. They organized a session together to align as a team on the…
Read MoreLeading Change: Three Major Misconceptions That Hinder Innovation
These days almost every organization is discussing the need for innovation. There is no CEO that talks with me about the company’s strategic drivers without mentioning ‘building more innovation power’. Every government is claiming innovation to be one of its…
Read MoreAmplifying Business Performance: Successful Leaders Approach Financial Growth Differently
We all see significant economic changes taking place around us. The financial crisis, emerging markets, new technologies are putting their stamp on our economies, on market places, and on businesses. Organizations face changing circumstances that require different approaches. Yesterday’s success…
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