Working Across Borders: How Hard Can It Be?
In today’s competitive environment most of us work across borders of one kind or another, but for me it is at the core of what I do… who I am. The reality is that we live in a global economy – with...
View ArticleThe Amazing Race: Leadership Lessons From Zimbabwe
Of all the amazing experiences I have been so fortunate to have, across many different boundaries and borders, one of my very favorites is the unique opportunity I had to walk with lions in Zimbabwe....
View ArticleKeys To Success: Leadership Legacy
A separate, but inter-related key to success lies within YOU. In today’s complex global business environment, as a leader you are the driving force and the magnet that draws people in – someone who...
View ArticleKeys To Success: Context and Corporate Culture, Part One
Building and maintaining a strong, resilient organizational culture is one of the few phenomena that is truly all inclusive. Creating a successful company ethos depends on the positive collision of...
View ArticleKeys To Success: Context and Corporate Culture, Part Two
Creating a great company culture can feel like chasing the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole… everywhere you turn are examples of what happens when a company culture goes south. This is most often...
View ArticleKeys To Success: Context and Corporate Culture, The Final Act
We hear about vision, mission statements and values often enough, but why are they so important? Similar to Alice unsuccessfully trying to open the door to Wonderland, you must have the right keys to...
View ArticleWinning The War: Three Key Battlefields… Part 2
Innovation. Integration. Motivation. Once again, three simple words… However, each of these is extremely complex and rarely executed. In order to win the war for global domination, we must engage...
View ArticleWinning The War: Three Key Battlefields Part 3
Innovation. Integration. Motivation. Once last time, three simple words… Each of these is extremely complex and rarely executed. In order to win the war for global domination, we must engage both...
View ArticleIntegrating Influence
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ― Kenneth H. Blanchard In your never-ending quest to become the best leader you can be, you need to relentlessly seek new ways to ascend to...
View ArticleAn Attitude Of Gratitude
Thanksgiving was established as an American national holiday in 1942 by President Roosevelt, however “thankfulness” is by no means exclusive to America. Thanksgiving was (and is) meant as an...
View ArticleYou Can’t Do It Alone
In today’s demanding business environment (cost pressures, flatter organizations, more direct reports, “speed to market” as a competitive advantage, etc.) you have limited opportunity to devote time...
View ArticleThe Vine: Dynamic Interdependence
For better or worse… we are all extensions of the networks we have built – or the lack thereof. Those who are devoted to the intensive cultivation of the vine will prosper and grow, while those who do...
View ArticleHow Extreme Is Your Team?
The past couple of weeks I have been doing a considerable amount of thinking around the value of networking. Last week I was in meetings with clients and we spoke extensively about the value of...
View ArticleRe:Create…Yourself
Last week I was at a conference with the key focus of understanding creativity – in its many forms. I really wanted to better understand how I could steer clients toward “creativity” from a business...
View ArticleWinning
Are you one of those 100’s of thousand’s of “leaders” out there who are merely meeting your established goals and collecting a paycheck? Isn’t there more to life? Shouldn’t you be seeking to maximize...
View ArticleThe Amazing Race: Leadership Lessons From Vienna
As those who have been reading this blog for a while know, my passion is global business. I love to travel and interact with different people from different places. Everywhere I go (and I have lived,...
View ArticleAre You Maximizing ALL Your Resources?
Welcome back to Leadership Across Boundaries & Borders! I can be reasonably sure, most of you would tell me that you are efficiently managing your resources – cutting costs, increasing...
View ArticleLeverage: Power & Responsibility
As we begin to explore and understand how cultural orientations affect our assumptions and perspectives, it is important to understand what a cultural orientation is and how it affects worldviews....
View ArticlePast.Present. Future.
Given the worlds extensive history and diverse variety, it is interesting how many common concepts, such as time, are rooted so firmly in a similar manner in very different societies. What is commonly...
View ArticleWho’s The Barbarian?
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