Beyond the Bottom Line: Understanding Family Firm Success Through Socio-Emotional Wealth
Family businesses are a unique breed. While profit is undeniably important, their motivations often extend far beyond simply maximizing financial returns. What sets them apart? A key differentiator lies in the concept of socio-emotional wealth. This framework offers a powerful lens for understanding the heterogeneity among family firms and how they differ from their non-family counterparts. It...
Reignite Your Leadership Team with Cohesion & Clarity
Feeling like your leadership team is pulling in different directions? Unsure if everyone truly knows each other, let alone shares a common vision? A Leadership Team Retreat can be the spark you need to reignite collaboration and drive. This week, we witnessed this firsthand while supporting the regional leadership team of an industrial solutions provider. Facing a newly formed organization, a...
The Leadership Triangle for CxO Team: Trust, Communication, and Decision-Making
In my previous post, we explored the critical importance of healthy and effective CxO teams for overall organizational success. We identified common challenges such as lack of trust, misaligned goals, and ineffective communication. Now, let's delve deeper into three interconnected elements that form the bedrock of highly effective leadership teams: trust, communication, and decision-making.
How does Great Leadership Feels Like? Let's Imagine This
What are the key topics for High Performance Leadership? This week I was attending a masterclass organised by IMD presenting their signature program: High Performance Leadership. And you will be surprised what their key topics are... Collaboration, relationships, emotions, purpose, self-discovery, psychological safety, etc. At Hive17, we believe that transformational business success is based on...
How Smart & Healthy is Your Organisation?
As a leader, do you sometimes feel stuck and despite the best efforts, you don't see progress? You might focus too much on being smart. Successful organisation focus on being smart and healthy . I like to illustrate this as a train representing the delivery to the customers (smartness). And the tracks (healthiness) are supporting the train to run smoothly. According to Patrick Lencioni it is easy...
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[Case Study] Turning Cost Savings into Climate Action: A Sustainability Success Story
Sustainability initiatives often face a hurdle: cost concerns. Many believe decarbonisation is simply too expensive. But what if we re-framed the conversation? This case study showcases how a seemingly daunting cost-cutting target became a springboard for a successful sustainability initiative. Here's how a headquarter's request for a 200 million US dollar savings in energy cost became a catalyst...
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[Case Study] - How to build a strong culture foundation when scaling up fast
There are mentorship programs and mentorship programs... Sometimes you walk into the client's office and you feel a different culture - a strong, positive dedication to deliver great results. How can you maintain and improve this culture while scaling up fast ? VISEO - the Positive Digital Makers - launched a mentorship program exactly with this in mind: selecting and enabling a group of...
"This Endeavour has Proven to be Priceless"
There is for me one key goal when facilitating workshops: I want to inspire people to start with their change . Last week, I facilitated a leadership development program and got these humbling testimonials from the participants. What can be better than that? Maybe, when you do what you love, great results will happen. I feel it is the passion, dedication, creativity and the ability to show full...
What attitude delivers lasting success? Win-win!
The end of the year is coming and I got asked, if you would give one piece of advise, what would it be? In my experience dealing with leaderships, one foundational attitude I discovered is Win-Win. In our work life we come across various situations: developing a product, negotiate with a client, hire an employee, resolve conflict, onboard a supplier, provide feedback, conduct meetings, and simply...
Enabling Teams to Give Their Best - It starts at the Top
Enabling teams to give their best - When I approach CEOs with this topic, they almost always think this is important for the teams reporting to them. Yes, the operations team needs to work more effectively. That business unit needs a boost in productivity. In the organisation, the different functions need to work closer together across the silos. While these are important areas for improvement,...
Corporate Democracy? Innovation plus People plus Results!
Most companies are stuck in their corporate patterns: large overhead costs and bureaucratic burdens; a focus on short-term results; an inert workforce following a handful of leaders; exposure to bias and unfairness. We sort of know it is wrong, but we don't have the means to change to the better. Except for one company! Very few people heard of the company Gore (mainly famous for its Gore-Tex...
Overcoming Employee Inertia? With Accountability & Ownership
Hands up who struggles with people that just do the minimum work? Yes, you are not alone. And it is frustrating to see the potential in people not being used to bring success for the company, for the team and for the individual. Your organisation might have great team bonding and a lot of fun. How well does this translate that everyone is giving their best? In my experience, being a nice and kind...
Team Retreats - A Solid Base for the Second Quadrant
We just finished a team retreat and during the closing, the client shared "this was amazing, we never got the people to share so much. The sessions were fun, insightful and engaging . Thank you so much!". How did we get there? One of the thing we can observe with many companies, friends, clients, and teams we are working with: we are overwhelmed, we are stuck in a rat race . Looking at the...
Your Sustainability Journey has Started - Are You Also Creating Impact?
Yes, in the last months we have achieved a lot. The majority of companies have defined sustainability targets and they are concerned about creating their ESG report. Though, we also need to be honest with ourselves: this is only talk and we need action - a lot of action - to reach global success in turning around climate change! “57% of CEOs identify unclear ROI and economic benefits as a leading...
Are your employees only following their daily routine? Let's get them out of inertia!
I hear that with many of my clients: I feel like they are only ticking the box and they are waiting to be told what to do. It feels like we have a blame culture which is slowing things down. How can we change them and stop this complacency? How can I enable my people to be more proactive ? And why bother, I can simply do the job myself and delegate the important stuff to 'my guy'. The answer is...
How do I become a successful leader? Knowledge or Practise?
As a change management practitioner, I believe a core to success are the leadership qualities of people - the people side of doing business. When talking about these leadership qualities, I often experience that the leaders know the concepts and tools to become a great leader. Though, they often admit that they are not able to apply these on a consistent, daily basis. Why is this an issue?...
2022 - What a Year!
The end of the year is a time for reflection and in many ways, 2022 was an extraordinary year. In the first quarter we started to see in Singapore and in many other regions a rapid easing of pandemic restrictions and a new dynamic accelerated across many elements of life. In the summer period, travel has resumed for almost everyone. Then, in the second half of the year the business activities...
Let's Celebrate - With a focus on Collaborative Success
We all heard that we need to celebrate success in order to motivate our people. And companies are getting creative: employee of the month, best idea of the month, people awards in endless categories; or they are sticking to the established tools like bonus and commission. And yes, celebrating is great and it gives all of us a short kick. The big question: what happens if we stop with these...
Is Leadership Like Dragging a Huge Rock Behind You?
Since a decade or so, it has been a good measure to involve people, ask for their opinion, and get them engaged in most company decisions and initiatives. This is intended to cultivate intrinsic motivation and a more enjoyable workplace . Now, we look back and think: what went wrong? The employees don't see how their contributions have been considered in the decision making process, coordination...
Delegating Power? Here is Why
People often see me as an evangelist for letting go of control. What I mean by this is a leadership style that is focusing on creating a platform and an environment for the organisation to be successful . Basically that is less of 'command & control' and more of 'facilitate & guide. In practical terms, this is delegating the relevant decision making power to the front. Ok, nice. "I agree with the...