21st Century Learning and Teaching

Leadershipwatch – Aad Boot

Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders are more and more facing cross-cultural challenges caused by globalization, emerging economies and new markets. How to notice differences in cultures? How to understand their impact on people behavior and performance? How to avoid cross-cultural friction and conflict? How to lead people and teams with different cultural backgrounds? How to create successful collaboration and teamwork cross-border?

Effectively dealing with cross-cultural challenges like these is rapidly becoming one of the key differentiators for effective leaders and successful companies.

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http://leadershipwatch-aadboot.com/2012/03/29/cross-cultural-leadership-how-to-create-people-alignment-part-1/

Leadershipwatch – Aad Boot

In Part 1 of this series I wrote about the importance of people alignment as a crucial competence for today’s leaders. Especially in a globalized world, where cross-cultural and multinational challenges are becoming more and more a normal part of the leader’s job, leaders need to understand how to create people alignment. In Part 1 I also described how ‘personal alignment’ plays an important role when creating people alignment.

This Part 2 is about another crucial element of people alignment: ‘team alignment’.

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http://leadershipwatch-aadboot.com/2012/04/20/cross-cultural-leadership-how-to-create-people-alignment-part-2/