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Leaders are supposed to have a vision. Every book about leadership discusses it. Leaders who work on the basis of a clear and explicit vision are often more successful at building focus and [...]

What do people need when their organisations change? Is it clear communication about the objectives of the change and the various projects? Yes. But there’s more. People also need a clear view of [...]

Post-merger integration. Expectations outside the organisation run sky high. Inside managers are getting ready for battle, staff is insecure, and operational problems mushroom. How can you see [...]

Some time ago, I had the opportunity to watch three management layers of a large company in action in a project. They gave me a riveting example of a fear driven culture. The lowest level, layer [...]

in many of our projects at some point we reach the stage where our client enters in negotiations with Trade Unions. Often a minefield. Transformational change usually comes with an impact on [...]

Imagine this – the Executive Board of a multinational is in a meeting and item six on its agenda reads: review corporate values after the crisis. Over the past few years I have seen a growing [...]

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). It’s almost something of a buzzword these days. The best way to describe the symptoms is a ‘storm in your head’, which makes it very difficult to stay focused. I [...]

A CEO presented his long-prepared strategic vision at a large internal meeting. He got a positive, but not overly enthusiastic response. “Wonderful ambition, but we would first need to deal with [...]

We usually take our time to work with our clients on developing their vision and creating a convincing strategy story. Ensuring that this story actually reaches the employees is another matter [...]

When organisations go through a period of fundamental change, complaints are often heard about internal communication. Information lacks clarity, people don’t get the big picture, questions [...]

Every day I see how senior managers communicate about their strategy. Rarely do I see true inspiration. The words people choose speak volumes about their personal connection to the organisation. [...]

In a meeting with the CIO of a large organisation we discussed a new approach to improve risk awareness. And discovered that beliefs about what drives behaviour can differ. Improving risk [...]

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, many companies are still busy transforming their business. In the pre-crisis years they learned to mobilise their staff in a positive way behind their [...]

Whenever I visit clients I try to overhear people talking in lifts, canteens and the coffee bar. It helps me understand the general beliefs within the organisation. When people talk about the [...]

Every month, a group of city managers meets up to share their experiences running a municipal organisation. The highest ranking public officials in their organisations, they are top managers who [...]

At C-Suite we are in business mostly because organisations are always changing. Change, I hear, is the only constant. That’s absolutely true, but does that also make it necessary and unavoidable? [...]