Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Organizations around the world are struggling with the increasing rate of change, the degree of global interconnectedness, multiculturalism, and the pace of technological advances. Humble Leadership at all levels will be needed to link workgroups and teams. Humble Leadership involves making that conscious choice in our work lives.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

And while these figures represent US households, the percentages are being exported due to technology driven globalization. In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. Increasingly, it’s women.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

First, as shown by a recent analysis of 32 technology firms, the personality of CEOs shapes the culture of the organization. For example, open-minded and curious CEOs create an entrepreneurial culture, driven and intense CEOs create a culture of results and achievement, and altruistic CEOs create a culture of empathy and cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world.

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