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
“The team is already four months involved in this change process. They are informed in detail about the reasons for the change and the objectives that were set by the executive board. The phase of ‘not knowing’ or ‘not understanding’…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Business, Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Change, Jim Collins, Lead change, Leadership, Leading Teams, Organization Development, Organizational Culture, People Alignment, Teamwork
When you observe successful teams in action you witness that an atmosphere of openness is always one of the success factors that drive the team’s behavior and performance. But as we all have probably experienced a few times in our lives,…
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Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, High Performance Teams, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Organization Development, Post Merger Integration, Team Work
Tags: BRIC, China, Communication, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Teams, Fons Trompenaars, Harvard Business Review, High Performance Teams, India, Japan, Leadership, Leading Teams, Openness, Post-Merger Integration
You find two kinds of leaders, those who lead change as a continuous learning and improvement experience versus those who do not … yet. And their mental models are reflected in the successes people achieve. Read more …
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leading Change, Organization Development
Tags: BRIC, Business, Change Management, Emerging markets, Executive Coaching, Globalization, Innovation, Lead change, Leadership, Mental Model, Organizational Change
A few weeks ago I received an unexpected call from a senior executive (I will call him Thomas) of a company I worked with some years ago. We had not seen each other for a long time and it was…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Business, Good to Great, Jim Collins, Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Teams, Management, Organization Development, People Alignment, Richard Branson