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Team meetings often go wrong when we communicate on different scales without being aware of it. Successful teams recognize this and by doing so they prevent time consuming and exhausting discussions. “If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or…
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Benjamin Franklin’s example shows how self-cultivation can be a smart strategy for leaders determined to survive and thrive in disruptive times. Looking back on a recent trip to Philadelphia (费城), the city where the USA was born, two things made…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Discipline, Executive Coaching, Expert Series, Focus, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Self Improvement, Skills of the Future
What are the key skills for the future? In our special multi-part series, experts share valuable and surprising insights we can use to build tomorrow’s world. In this part Harvard professor Michael Puett explains the skill of breaking patterns and…
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Category: Latest on LeadershipWatch, People Skills
Tags: AI, Big Data, Books, Chinese culture, Confucius, Cross-Cultural Communication, Expert Series, Google, Harvard, Harvard Business Review, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Michael Puett, Patterns, Skills of the Future, The School of Life
Find here the Top 5 leadership articles selected by our readers in 2016 In 2016 LeadershipWatch has again welcomed an amazing amount of readers, and we received lots of appreciation and nice reactions. Many thanks to you all! You are…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Accountability, Business Performance, China, Creativity, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Season's Greetings, Team, Team Alignment
Our success, our feeling of accomplishment and our happiness, in our personal lives, as leaders, in our teams and in our businesses, it very much comes down to whether we ‘play to win’ or ‘play not to lose’. Are we…
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Many change initiatives fail because people are not willing or not able to follow the new direction. A huge amount of energy goes into trying to convince, motivate, encourage, stimulate, or force people to follow the change. And often only with mediocre results! What are we missing?
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Over the past 25 years I have been involved in various complex change programs for companies in all kinds of markets and circumstances. But in the past years I have seen the world of Business Transformation, Program and Project Management change substantially. I will share my insights and highlight 3 vital elements that determine the success of change programs in today’s business reality. In this article I focus on the first element: Stimulate your people to think and communicate in terms of impact.
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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
When working with cross-cultural teams, especially teams where East meets West, team members can have very different perceptions of authority. Are you aware that these different perceptions affect the functioning of your team, and your role as a business leader?…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cross Cultural Teams
Tags: Carlos Ghosn, Chinese culture, Collaboration, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Team Collaboration, Cultural Differences, India, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Leading Teams, Team Diversity
What is your first thought when you hear the name Jack Ma? The king of e- and mobile commerce? The richest man in China? How did the founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group (Alibaba’s recent IPO was the largest in world history) build his success, and that of the countless people using Alibaba’s trading platforms? What lessons does he want to share?
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Category: Communication, Customer Service, Leadership
Tags: Alibaba, Alipay, Business Transformation, China, Davos 2015, Jack Ma, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, New York Times, Team Diversity, Trust