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Post Merger Integration: Who is your Enemy?
My sons play baseball. They love the game and are both playing in the same team. It is a team of young kids between 11 and 14 years old and living in Brussels gives an extra flavor to their team; …...
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Leading Change: What does Change mean to You?
The other day I heard a senior leader say: “More than ever we live in times of change.Our organization will have to face the fact that what was will disappear. We will have to adjust and reinvent...
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Leading Change: Three Major Misconceptions That Hinder Innovation
These days almost every organization is discussing the need for innovation. There is no CEO that talks with me about the company’s strategic drivers without mentioning ‘building more innovation power’....
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Leading Innovation: Why Executives Should Stimulate People to Make (Better)...
Some while ago I was working with a senior executive team. The team was leading a global division and was facing a complex change that involved four continents. They organized a session together to...
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Organizational Alignment: The Power of Cross-Organizational Networks
Photo: WebWizzard/Flickr (Creative Commons) How do organizations deal with the changes in today’s business environment? How do they keep up with the pace of change, let alone get ahead of it? How do...
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6 Contrarian Reasons Why You’re Lucky to Be a Leader Today
Our Guest Post on Switch & Shift: Nobody ever said that being a leader is simple. Certainly not in today’s world where changes seem to happen at the speed of light; where communication and...
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Leading Innovation: The One Important Aspect Executives Tend to Underestimate
Inventing new and better products, technologies, and business models. Experimenting. Realizing smart breakthroughs. We all know that innovation is crucial to stay competitive in today’s business world....
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A Powerful Story about Team Diversity: The Philips Founding Fathers
This is an episode of the LeadershipWatch Series: How to collaborate across divisions, companies and cultures and achieve your goals? Follow the LeadershipWatch Series and learn from the best experts...
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Leading Change: 3 Key Tips from Wi-Fi Pioneer Cees Links
Did you ever hear the story of how Cees (‘Case’) Links, whose boyish face lights up behind his glasses when he recounts it now, convinced Steve Jobs to embrace Wi-Fi, the wireless internet technology...
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Skills of the Future: The Best Expert Advice on Creativity
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...
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Why the Open Mind Always Outperforms the Closed One
People confronted with the fast changes in our sometimes chaotic and uncertain world can have the reflex to close themselves off to the unknown. Consciously or subconsciously they adopt a closed mind....
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6 Memorable Things I Learned in China
This summer I traveled to Beijing and Ningxia, thanks to the China Unlimited contest organized by the China EU Mission. I had hoped to learn more about China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative reviving...
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Why Curiosity is a Key Business Attitude for the Future
Curiosity is more than just a nice to have in today’s business context. It is essential to successfully navigate the rapid technological changes coming our way. For instance for my current client, a...
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Big Data and Algorithms Need Our Moral Compass. Here’s Why.
Big data and complex algorithms are all around us. Machines are getting smarter by the day. They can help us make better decisions. Make our lives easier. But is machine intelligence always right? Big...
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In these time of relentless technological and business change, resilience is starting to receive renewed attention/ is climbing higher on the leadership agenda. Resilience encompasses the ability to...
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