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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
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
Senior leaders are confronted with an increasing rate of change and complexity and need to find ways to deal with it. Leading your company through change has become different from how it was ten to twenty years ago. Mobilizing employees,…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, People Skills
Tags: Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change
Yesterday it was Independence Day – 4th of July. An important day for America. I was reading mails and tweets from American friends and got inspired by it to write this short piece. I am not American, but maybe my…
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Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Team Work, Vision
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence, European Union, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, People Alignment, Robert Schuman, Thomas Jefferson, United States, United States Declaration of Independence
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the importance of openness within teams. About how our perception of openness can vary much from culture to culture, and how this can seriously hinder teams from being successful. In ‘Leading Cross-Cultural…
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Companies face the impact of a globalized market. New economies are emerging fast. Mergers and acquisitions are increasing. Traditional market positions of companies are challenged. As a result leaders are confronted more and more with new and different ways of…
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Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams
Tags: Communication, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Alignment, Executive Coaching, High Performance Teams, Intercultural Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Culture, Post-Merger Integration
Many companies operate in globalized markets, and leaders have to deal with cross-cultural differences. How do successful leaders create effective collaboration across organizations between members from different cultures? Read More …
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Category: Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Identity, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, People Alignment, Science Daily, University of Zurich
Creating people alignment is crucial to your business success. It always has been and always will be. But what does this mean in our current business environment where the globalization has spread like a fire? What is the impact on…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Post Merger Integration, Team Work
Tags: Charles Hampden-Turner, Cultural Identity, Devdutt Pattanaik, Fons Trompenaars, Leadership, Leadership Alignment
The story you are about to read is a real life story. A few years ago I participated in a management team meeting of John (not his real name) and his team. John’s company, a Fortune 100 business, had recently…
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“We decided on a clear strategy, but up to now we still didn’t succeed to put this strategy into action.” “How many times do I have to convince my people that this change is necessary for us? They clearly told…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leading Change, Team Work
Tags: Alignment, Business, Change Management, Lead change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Change, People Alignment