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Successful teams take decisions as one. They find sound solutions and build successful execution because team members ‘own’ decisions as if they were their own. But reaching and maintaining this state takes conscious effort. Even the best teams can find…
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For leaders in today’s unpredictable world this quote of Abraham Lincoln is very relevant. Let’s take a closer look at what it means. When the British still had an Empire (ruled by Queen Victoria) and a weak China was forced…
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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
Let’s change the way we lead change! In one of our most-read articles here on Leadershipwatch ‘What Does Change Mean to You?’ I describe how change always has been and always will be a natural part of our lives. We’ve…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Cultural Change, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Leading Teams, Mindset, Organization Development, Organizational Change, Program Management, Project Management, Team Alignment
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
Teams that ceaselessly expand their limits can start showing signals of demotivation and decreasing trust in the team’s success if they do not take the time to consciously experience and embed the results achieved.
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Business Performance, Change Management, Cross-Team Collaboration, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Strategy Execution, Team Alignment, Team Diversity
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
Big data and complex algorithms are all around us. Machines are getting smarter by the day. They can help us make better decisions. Make our lives easier. But is machine intelligence always right? Big data and computer algorithms are all…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: AI, Algorithms, Bernard Marr, Big Data, Expert Series, Harvard, Innovation, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Machine Learning, Princeton, Technology, TED Talks, Transparency, Zeynep Tufekci
Curiosity is more than just a nice to have in today’s business context. It is essential to successfully navigate the rapid technological changes coming our way. For instance for my current client, a large retail company, which is facing significant…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership Skills
Tags: Accountability, Cross-Team Collaboration, Innovation, Leading Change, MITSloan, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, Skills of the Future, Strategy Execution
People confronted with the fast changes in our sometimes chaotic and uncertain world can have the reflex to close themselves off to the unknown. Consciously or subconsciously they adopt a closed mind. When we do it collectively this closeness can…
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Category: Business Transformation, Culture Change, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership Skills, People Skills
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, China, Cultural Differences, Elon Musk, Innovation, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Lego, Nelson Mandela, Openness, Skills of the Future