Leading Cross-Cultural Teams: How to Create Openness? (Part 2)
Two weeks ago I wrote a post on the importance of openness within teams. On how our perception of openness can vary much from culture to culture, and how this can seriously hinder teams from being...
View ArticleLeading Change: 3 Reasons Why Great Leaders Are Reluctant to Compromise
The other day I watched a political leader proclaim with great pride what a huge success this compromise was. How they had reached it after long and exhausting negotiations. This was truly a great...
View ArticleCross-Cultural Leadership: Why Learning Chinese Business Etiquette is Not Enough
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....
View ArticleCross-Cultural Leadership: The One Secret Success Ingredient
Do business leaders and HR departments pay sufficient attention to equipping people preparing for international assignments, as well as managers leading cross-cultural teams, with sound cross-cultural...
View ArticleCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Stimulate Your Asian Team Members to Speak Up?
In global teams, team effectiveness is not only impacted by personal (people’s characters and temperament) and organizational (level of team alignment from the start) elements. There are important...
View ArticleHow to Lead Global Teams: One Powerful Tip for Westerners
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...
View ArticleWhen East Meets West: Peter Hessler Shares His 3 Best Tips for 2016
When the American journalist and writer Peter Hessler (Peter is staff writer at the New Yorker and contributing writer for the National Geographic) moved to China to teach and write, he discovered that...
View Article7 Top Insights for Leading East-West Business Teams
As business leader you are increasingly dealing with global business teams. For instance East-West business teams in which people from cultures you know rather well need to collaborate with people from...
View ArticleSkills for the Future: Break Patterns and Surprise Yourself, says Harvard’s...
What are the key skills for the future? In our special multi-part series, experts share valuable and surprising insights we can use to build tomorrow’s world. In this part Harvard professor Michael...
View ArticleLooking Back on Last Week’s Trip to Hyderabad
I just returned from a trip to Hyderabad (visiting my Indian colleagues and teams that work on the corporate transformation program I’m leading for a European retail company) when I came across an...
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