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How biases, politics and egos trump good strategy?
An insightful blog on cognitive biases and social dynamics during strategy development and execution and highlights how hidden forces unconsciously might sabotage the best-laid strategies and plans
Struggling to navigate the complexity within your organization?
Research studies affirm the growing complexity in how organizations structure themselves. I also personally witness a surge in internal procedures, decision approvals, layers, interface structures in most organizations across sectors.
The pitfalls of giving feedback in a cross-cultural workplace and how to make it work
Cultural differences play a pivotal role in feedback perception. What’s constructive in one culture might be destructive in another. A direct approach that’s welcomed in one place can be easily misinterpreted as aggressive elsewhere.
Why use Drawings in Organization Development Initiatives?
Why use Drawings in Organization Development Initiatives?
Interview MT.BE: 6 tips om van verandering wél een succes te maken
Interview with Geert Vercaeren on how to make your strategy work by taking a more radical human-centered approach
Interview Geert Vercaeren about book Humanizing Strategy (on Boxring.tv)
Interview (in Dutch) Geert Vercaeren about book Humanizing Strategy (on Boxring.tv)
Humanizing Strategy: How to Master Emotions, Values and Beliefs When You Execute Plans (by Geert Vercaeren)
Book will be released in February 2021 !
Season’s Greetings 2021
Wishing you a healthy and inspiring 2021!
Summer readings 2020. Enjoy Summer!
These 6 books on leadership inspired me most over the past years. Enjoy Summer!
” Intelligence is becoming a commodity, but what is rare is emotional intelligence …
Inspiring quote from Ilham Kadri, CEO Solvay
The five key dynamics that set successful teams apart from other teams at Google
Research at Google revealed that who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.
B15 is certified in Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0), the starting point to build Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 (EQ-i 2.0) is a scientifically validated Emotional Intelligence tool and great starting point to build Emotional Intelligence in your organisation.
The 5 books that inspired me most to build more adaptable organisations
# Team of Teams #The Silo Effect #Reinventing Organisations #Six simple Rules # The Fearless Organisation
Growth versus Fixed mindset
Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. Research reveals that they tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). Find out your current mindset by completing a quick assessment?
How adaptable is your organization?
Adaptable Organizations are living and breathing enterprises organized around networks based on how people work and behave, distributing and maximizing human potential. How adaptable is your organization? Check it out!
The 7 essential elements of a lifelong-learning mind-set
The 7 essential elements of a lifelong-learning mind-set (by McKinsey)
The six essentials on how to manage conflict
The six essentials on how to manage conflict and turn conflict into a constructive tool for individual and company successaccording to IMD Professor George Kohlrieser.
The Fearless Organization Scan
Psychological safety is required for team high-performance. The Fearless Organization Scan maps how team members perceive the level of psychological safety in their closest context.
Results research: ‘Digital-in-the-mind of the CEO’
Highlights on research project ‘Digital-in-the-mind of the CEO’. The report maps the digital readiness of Belgian organizations and shares thoughts, practices, critical success factors and challenges to make them (more) digital ready.
Interview Trends 25/04/2019: Een pinguïn geduit niet in een woestijn
Interview with Geert Vercaeren on why companies do not always succeed to hire the right people.
High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety.
So true … I experience it during every single client intervention aiming to build high-performing teams. This article includes valuable steps on how to create. it.
The 8 habits of the world’s most progressive workplaces
Most inspiring workplaces find a unique way to success. While these ways are different for every single workplace, the mindset is not.
Survey results: The ‘attitude’ challenge of your hiring process – and 3 things you can do about it
Our recent research reveals that 45% of executives are confronted with hiring misfits
Why your digital journey cannot afford to neglect emotions?
No digital strategy can afford to neglect emotional and psychological factors, because it ultimately deals with people.
The three altitudes of leadership
Interesting insight relevant for modern business leaders having to combine complex and sometimes contradictory mindsets: global, strategic, tactical, value-creating, intellectual, creative, learning, emotional, pragmatic, process, customer, community and SELF.
Quick Scan … starting point to build a Highly Inspiring Workplace
The perfect starting point to make work more fun
11 Leadership Guidelines for the Digital Age
Old ways of running a company won’t cut it in a digital world. This article presents 11 strategic implications and recommendations grouped in three catagories: business environment, organisation and strategy.
Are you able to read collective emotions? Do the 7-minute test!
Do this free 7 minutes test and get personalised feedback on your ability to recognize the composition of diverse emotions in a collective.
5 tips on how to boost Emotional Capital
Despite spending time and resources developing ambitious strategies, why do some leaders still fail to execute them? Based on research by INSEAD faculty, this SlideShare explores how managers can boost a vital but often neglected element within the organisation: Emotional Capital.
The Digital Change Agent’s Manifesto
Interesting research report from Brian Solis at Altimeter @ Prophet on How People Behind Digital Transformation Lead Change From Within.
The Set-Up-To-Fail-Syndrome
Cartoon explaining ‘The Set-Up-To-Fail-Syndrome’, a no harm intended relationship spiral between bosses and sub-ordinates from bad to worse.
HR as a Force for Digital Change
Report from Helen Rosenthorn at Prophet which explores how HR can realize its potential as a catalyst for digital change across three levers: leadership, culture and strategy.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It’s always been done that way.’ – Grace Hopper
Short movie of the famous ‘Social Experiment’: 5 Monkeys and a Ladder
The ‘Authentizotic’ workplace
How to create an organisation where people find meaning in, and are captivated by, their work.
The value of Executive Coaching
The client speaks … interesting testimonial, thought-piece developed by Dr Mannie Sher from The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
How Drawings May Get to the Root of Your Silo Issues
Having trouble bringing your teams together to realise your strategy? Drawings may help.
by Geert Vercaeren, INSEAD | June 13, 2017
“Freud for companies”
Trends interview with Geert Vercaeren on his recent research on how to get rid of silo-mentality and improve inter-group collaboration.
How to avoid silo-working and improve collaboration
Abstract of recent INSEAD research by Geert Vercaeren on the challenges of human dynamics of collaboration within and between organizations. He also developed an approach on how to maximize the success of initiatives to get rid of silo-working, silo mentality by integration a functional and psychological perspective in a hands-on approach.
“The smell of the place”
A brilliant speech from Professor Sumantra Ghosal at the World Economic Forum about corporate environments and the faults of management in creating a positive work place.
Five reasons most companies fail at Strategy Execution
Dr. Quy N. Huy, a strategy professor at INSEAD identified five main emotion-based barriers to strategy execution within organisations. He states that if your organisational culture has these five characteristics, all attempts to implement strategic change will likely be doomed.
How Avoidance Destroys Strategic Initiatives
Avoidance is an extremely common response to strategic initiatives that makes executives put off critical issues. Roger Lehman from INSEAD and John Young from RedElephant Technology state that to overcome it, you might start looking out for some crucial signs.
The Principle of Charity
Neil Bearden, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD, offers a simple methodological prescription for fighting our natural tendency to treat our own interpretations as facts. The idea is called ‘The Principle of Charity’.
Employees first, customers second
Must read, interesting book from Vineet Nayar turning conventional management upside down.
How great leaders inspire action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership — starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …