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Team meetings often go wrong when we communicate on different scales without being aware of it. Successful teams recognize this and by doing so they prevent time consuming and exhausting discussions. “If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or…
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In these time of relentless technological and business change, resilience is starting to receive renewed attention, and is climbing higher on the leadership agenda. Resilience encompasses the ability to recover quickly from setbacks, to respond positively to change, to see…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Allene Tew, Chinese culture, Harvard Business Review, High Performance Teams, Innovation, Jack Ma, Martin Seligman, Qi Gong, Resilience, Team Alignment, Technology, World Economic Forum
Find here the top 5 most read articles on leading complex change and cross-cultural collaboration on LeadershipWatch in 2017. Enjoy! 1) Organizational Alignment: The Power of Cross-Organizational Networks What will the organizations of tomorrow look like? Will they still hold…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leading Change
Tags: Business, Change Management, Chinese culture, Collaboration, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Harvard, Leading Innovation, Michael Puett, Organizational Change, Team Alignment
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
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
Our success, our feeling of accomplishment and our happiness, in our personal lives, as leaders, in our teams and in our businesses, it very much comes down to whether we ‘play to win’ or ‘play not to lose’. Are we…
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We all know that when people feel responsible and take ownership of a change process it drastically increases the success rate. But did you know that ownership has 4 levels? Four levels that will have a different impact on the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership Skills
Tags: Accountability, Harvard Business Review, Jack Ma, Leading Change, MIT Sloan Management Review, Ownership, Responsibility, Team Alignment
“It is not in good times that you see the value of team alignment, but in difficult times,” Aad says. “Teams that manage to navigate successfully through difficult situations, that face disruptive changes and find answers, that manage to inspire the organization despite the uncertain and complex changes it has ahead.”
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Latest on LeadershipWatch
Tags: Cross-Cultural Teams, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Expert Interview Series, John Mattone, Keynote Speaker, Leadership Alignment, Organizational Culture, Team Alignment
How to lead cross-cultural teams, particularly teams where East meets West? What are concrete things you can do to help your global team in real-life business situations? This was the topic of my recent keynote at SIETAR Europa’s congress in…
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Category: Business Transformation, Cross Cultural Teams, Leadership Skills, People Skills
Tags: Asia, BRIC, Business, China, Collaboration, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Economist, India, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Alignment