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From Misunderstanding to Mastery: Four Dimensions to Transform Your Cross Cultural Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization. Reduced Global Competitiveness Failing to address cross-cultural challenges compromises your ability to operate effectively across different markets. The goal is to define (and continually redefine) a shared culture.

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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. The drive train or transmission of any vehicle, transfers engine power to its wheels creating forward or backward movement. Lose situational awareness. Lose opportunity.

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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

Experts in the Netherlands predict that, on average, a child born today will pursue 7 professions during their working career. So, the organization will continuously need to adapt to an ever-changing environment and need personnel who operate well in this (ever new) environment. Influence means getting things done.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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In praise of leaders who give meaning to labor

Persuasive Powerhouse

Most leaders are unaware of the intensity of their ability to shape the climate of the workplace and to influence the attitudes of the people who work there. They may choose to influence in such a way that the people working there feel as if they are making a contribution or just taking home a pay check.

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The Common Unique Paths to Becoming a Change Agent

Change Starts Here

Already focused on the people side of the business, they are able to transition their career from the transactional work towards the transformational. Others begin their careers working in business operations. I started my own career as an industrial engineer, focused on manufacturing process efficiency.

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Leading Blog

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure—one that reveals both how an object was designed and, more important, how it can be re-created. “It 5 Embrace the Vision-Ability Gap.