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This series is about 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 the leader’s job. Successful leaders create people alignment…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Leadership, Leadership Alignment
Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Culture, People Alignment
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
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Organization Development
Tags: Business, Change Management, Innovation, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Senior Management, Tim Harford
When leading change, for instance in post merger integrations, leadership teams are very often confronted with cross-cultural differences. These can be corporate or national culture differences. Not dealing with these cultural differences effectively can have a serious impact on leadership…
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Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Post Merger Integration, Team Work
Tags: Asia, Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cultural Alignment, Cultural Identity, Dishonesty, Education and Training, Executive Coaching, Honesty, Leadership, Management
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Business, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Culture, Peter Drucker, Strategic Management
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
Post Merger Integration research over the past decades has shown that a great deal of mergers and acquisitions did not yield the desired value. Many surveys mention insufficient attention to the people and cultural aspects of the integration as one of the main causes of failure. Overlooking or underestimating the effect of cultural differences can seriously hinder the integration process and can destroy value. Read more …
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Booz Allen Hamilton, Business, Business Transformation, Consulting, Cultural Identity, Fons Trompenaars, KPMG, Leadership, Post-Merger Integration, Synergy
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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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Apple, Business, Change Management, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Change, Leadership, Leading Change, Organization Development
“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
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