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
By 2020, creativity will be one of the top 3 skills anyone who wants to be successful in the economy of the future will need, according to the Future of Jobs report. We looked for the best expert advice on creativity – and found it.
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Category: Leadership Skills, People Skills
Tags: Business, Creativity, Daan Roosegaarde, Economy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Innovation, Leading Change, Leading Innovation, Organization Development, Skills of the Future, World Economic Forum
Finding the right balance between strategy development and execution has become a vital element in the success of your company. How do you actually create the right balance between strategy development and execution? Read more here …
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In today’s business reality the level of complexity and the increased rate of change cause challenges for many leaders. Motivating people to change direction, building new strategies, transforming business models, and adopting new ways of collaboration. Quite a job! Especially…
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Category: Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leading Change
Tags: Business Transformation, China, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Tsinghua University, Vision, World Bank
The story goes that the hunters put an apple in a glass jar with a narrow opening and leave the jar deep into the jungle under a tree. In the evening the monkeys come out of the trees triggered by…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Apple, Business, Change Management, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Change, Leadership, Leading Change, Organization Development
“The team is already four months involved in this change process. They are informed in detail about the reasons for the change and the objectives that were set by the executive board. The phase of ‘not knowing’ or ‘not understanding’…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Business, Business Transformation, Change Management, Cultural Change, Jim Collins, Lead change, Leadership, Leading Teams, Organization Development, Organizational Culture, People Alignment, Teamwork
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…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organization Development, Team Work
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Business, Good to Great, Jim Collins, Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Teams, Management, Organization Development, People Alignment, Richard Branson