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As business leader you are increasingly dealing with East-West business teams. Leading these teams effectively has a great impact on the success of companies in today’s business reality.
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Asian Cultures, Business Performance, Chinese culture, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cross-Team Collaboration, Indian Culture, Intercultural Leadership, Japanese culture, Leadership Alignment, Leading Teams, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Dynamics
“It is not in good times that you see the value of team alignment, but in difficult times,” Aad says. “Teams that manage to navigate successfully through difficult situations, that face disruptive changes and find answers, that manage to inspire the organization despite the uncertain and complex changes it has ahead.”
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Cross-Cultural Teams, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Expert Interview Series, John Mattone, Keynote Speaker, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Culture, Team Alignment
The Chinese learn from us more quickly than we learn from them. Let’s reverse the situation, and use working with Chinese people to our advantage. Jack Ma founder and chairman of the successful Alibaba Group, discovered the power of e-commerce…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership Development
Tags: AkzoNobel, Alibaba Group, BASF, China, Collaboration, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Change, Forbes, Jack Ma, Leadership Skills, Leading Change
Accountability is a crucial ingredient of successful collaboration, and it is often underestimated. Read here 4 valuable tips to make your team embrace accountability …
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Are you leading change? Do you believe in the importance of a collaborative culture in your company? Do you want to encourage successful collaboration between people and teams across organization units, even across companies? Let me share a few considerations,…
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Business leaders of multinational organizations are often confronted with cross-cultural differences. These differences can cause misunderstandings and awkward situations between people. Especially when people feel they are losing Face. Face – an Eastern concept most likened to the Western concept…
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Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Leadership, People Skills
Tags: China, Chinese culture, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cross-Team Collaboration, Management, Multinational Corporation, People Alignment
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Organization Development, People Skills
Tags: Business Environments, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Emerging markets, Intercultural Leadership, Leadership, Leading Teams, Management, Multinational Corporation, Team Alignment, Teamwork
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
Recently I had the pleasure to travel around in China for a few weeks. Visiting a fair deal of the country, north and south, the big cities and a part of the country side. I came back with a truck…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Vision
Tags: Asia, China, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Alignment, Leadership, Leading Change, Martin Jacques, People Alignment, Western world
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