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Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face
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…
Read MoreTeam Alignment: What if Your Team is Stuck?
Do you recognize this situation? A team is confronted with an important problem, and it has to tackle it. All team members are actively discussing and debating the problem, trying to come up with a proper solution. Everybody shares a…
Read MoreLeadershipwatch Anniversary
This month is the 2nd anniversary of Leadershipwatch! The past two years have been exciting and rewarding. Leadershipwatch has become a source for 21st century leaders to find new insights, advice and tips on how to deal with today’s leadership…
Read MoreLeading Multinational Companies: The Difference between Execution versus Action
Some time ago this executive team contacted me. They were dealing with important market changes that affected their business. There was an urgent need for change in the organization and they had defined a set of strategic objectives that would…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 2)
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…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 1)
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…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How Misinterpretations of Dishonesty Can Destroy Team Alignment
When leading change, for instance in post merger integrations, leadership teams are very often confronted with cross-cultural differences. These can be corporate or national culture differences. Not dealing with these cultural differences effectively can have a serious impact on leadership…
Read MoreAmplifying Business Performance: Successful Leaders Approach Financial Growth Differently
We all see significant economic changes taking place around us. The financial crisis, emerging markets, new technologies are putting their stamp on our economies, on market places, and on businesses. Organizations face changing circumstances that require different approaches. Yesterday’s success…
Read MoreOrganization Development: The True Meaning of ‘People come First’
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…
Read MoreLeading Change: 6 Signs that tell you might be dealing with Compliance rather than Commitment
In my earlier post Why Alignment is crucial for those who Lead Change I explained how a lack of alignment can lead to compliance instead of commitment and how this can be a serious setback in achieving change. In all the…
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