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,…
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Category: Business Transformation, Leadership Development, Organization Development
Tags: Book, Collaboration, High Performance Teams, Jim Collins, Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Teams, Morten Hansen, Strategy Execution, UC Berkeley
A senior executive recently shared with me: “I have been explaining our new strategy for months, and last week in a leadership meeting I got astonishing feedback. The main message was ‘we have no clue where we’re going with our…
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“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
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