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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…
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‘We should have had this discussion a long time ago. It would have saved us a lot of time and a lot of useless frustration.’ This was the feedback I received from executives during an executive team alignment session I…
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Category: Cross Cultural Teams, High Performance Teams, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Executive Coaching, INSEAD, Intercultural Leadership, LeadershipWatch, Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Multinational Corporation, Senior Management, Team Dynamics
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…
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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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Organization Development, Vision
Tags: Conference Board, Corporate Change, Gary Hamel, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, LeadershipWatch, Management, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Change, Senior Management
This series is about 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 the leader’s job. Successful leaders create people alignment…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Leadership, Leadership Alignment
Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Multinational Corporation, Organizational Culture, People Alignment
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Organization Development, People Skills
Tags: Business Environments, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Emerging markets, Intercultural Leadership, Leadership, Leading Teams, Management, Multinational Corporation, Team Alignment, Teamwork
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
In working with multinational companies we see three specific changes that affect the role of senior leaders. Three changes that require special attention and sometimes even a fundamental mind shift. Read more …
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Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Team Work
Tags: Asia, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Emerging markets, Executive Coaching, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Multinational Corporation
A while ago I was working with a senior executive team. The team was leading a global division and was facing a complex change that involved four continents. They organized a session together to align as a team on the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Organization Development
Tags: Business, Change Management, Innovation, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Senior Management, Tim Harford
These days cultural change is a topic that is high on the agenda of many corporate executives. It looks like almost each change initiative within companies is linked to changing its culture. Many leaders proclaim that the ability to change/adjust…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leading Change
Tags: Aad Boot, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cultural Alignment, Cultural Change, Leadership, Multinational Corporation, Transformation of Culture