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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
Recently I had the pleasure to travel around in China for a few weeks. Visiting a fair deal of the country, north and south, the big cities and a part of the country side. I came back with a truck…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Vision
Tags: Asia, China, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Alignment, Leadership, Leading Change, Martin Jacques, People Alignment, Western world
We live in times of change. Shifting powers between West and East, technological evolutions, emerging countries and changing economic landscapes, financial systems that are under severe pressure, new innovative companies that change market places. As I described in an earlier…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Culture Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organization Development, People Skills
Tags: Business, Change Management, Communication, Forbes, John Kotter, Lead change, Leadership, People Alignment
Yesterday it was Independence Day – 4th of July. An important day for America. I was reading mails and tweets from American friends and got inspired by it to write this short piece. I am not American, but maybe my…
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Category: Business Transformation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Team Work, Vision
Tags: Aad Boot, Alignment, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence, European Union, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, People Alignment, Robert Schuman, Thomas Jefferson, United States, United States Declaration of Independence
“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
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about the importance of openness within teams. About how our perception of openness can vary much from culture to culture, and how this can seriously hinder teams from being successful. In ‘Leading Cross-Cultural…
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Many companies operate in globalized markets, and leaders have to deal with cross-cultural differences. How do successful leaders create effective collaboration across organizations between members from different cultures? Read More …
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Category: Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Skills, Post Merger Integration
Tags: Business, Cross-Cultural Teams, Cultural Identity, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, People Alignment, Science Daily, University of Zurich
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
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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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leading Change
Tags: Alignment, Change Management, Commitment, Compliance, Lead change, Leadership, Management, Organizational Change, People Alignment, Teamwork
“We decided on a clear strategy, but up to now we still didn’t succeed to put this strategy into action.” “How many times do I have to convince my people that this change is necessary for us? They clearly told…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Leadership Development, Leading Change, Team Work
Tags: Alignment, Business, Change Management, Lead change, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Change, People Alignment