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Benjamin Franklin’s example shows how self-cultivation can be a smart strategy for leaders determined to survive and thrive in disruptive times. Looking back on a recent trip to Philadelphia (费城), the city where the USA was born, two things made…
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Category: Business Transformation, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leadership
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Discipline, Executive Coaching, Expert Series, Focus, Leadership Skills, Leadership Stories, Leading Change, Self Improvement, Skills of the Future
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
Many corporate change programs fail to deliver the expected results. Gary Hamel, John Kotter, and others claim the failure rate to be around a staggering 70%. What is the role of executive teams here? How can executive teams increase the…
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Category: Business Transformation, Change Management, Latest on LeadershipWatch, Leading Change
Tags: Communication, Corporate Change, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Gary Hamel, John Kotter, Multinational Corporation, People Alignment, Program Management, Project Management, Strategy, Strategy Execution
“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
Do you want to be successful in doing business with the Chinese? Do you want to build lasting relationships? Then understand why learning Chinese business etiquette will be important, but not enough. Your company is looking for a Chinese business…
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“Here lies a man who knew to enlist in his service better men than himself.” This is how Andrew Carnegie, the (Scotland-born) U.S. steel magnate who gave away the vast majority of his fortune, wanted people to remember him. (Among…
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Category: Business Transformation, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Team Work
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Carnegie, Executive Coaching, Leadership Alignment, Leading Change, Leading Teams, New York Times, Team Dynamics
‘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
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
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…
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Category: Communication, Cross Cultural Teams, Cultural Integration, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Leadership Alignment, Post Merger Integration, Team Work
Tags: Asia, Business, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Cultural Alignment, Cultural Identity, Dishonesty, Education and Training, Executive Coaching, Honesty, Leadership, Management
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…
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