What I'm learning in the room.
Field notes from real engagements: how leadership teams align and what makes change hold when it does. Cases and methods, plus the occasional interviews.
What holds a cross-border team together, with CEXIM executives
A hands-on session with executives from China's Export-Import Bank, on the trust and shared language cross-cultural teams actually run on.
How Salomon's digital leaders turned alignment into delivery at scale
The team turning psychological safety and team alignment into delivery at scale, at a brand I've loved since childhood.
What really makes a team succeed
An interview with Wirtschaftspsychologie Heute on why trust and communication decide team success more than raw talent.
A deep-tech client that cleans up shipping wins a national award
Daphne Technology, building cleaner marine systems, takes the 2023 Swiss Economic Forum Life Science Award.
Turn your worst recurring meeting into thirty useful minutes
The Meeting Optimizer, a simple tool that rescues a tiresome meeting, on-site or online, before it starts.
Two days to align Cartier's entrepreneur club on its future
An intensive alignment sprint in Geneva with the committee of RED CLUB × Cartier, on where the club goes next.
What a hospital crisis taught us about alignment
March 2020, Geneva: turning surgical units into COVID capacity in days and the five lessons that held.
Taking the Team Alignment Map to the Middle East
The first Team Alignment Masterclass in the region, in Kuwait City and what travels across cultures.
How to keep a large transformation from drifting, at PwC
Keeping execution sound when a change runs across many teams: the three-day method that put 40 PwC change agents on the same page.
Half your meetings are wasted. Two conditions fix it
Wasted meetings echo a 1944 CIA sabotage manual. The two conditions that reverse it: psychological safety and shared knowledge.
Why talented teams still fail without psychological safety
Can talented people who distrust each other perform? Unequivocally, no, and psychological safety is the reason.
Why a misaligned team feels slow and what's happening backstage
The signs of misalignment and the backstage work that turns delay and frustration into shared direction.
Most conflicts start as an unchecked assumption
The Fact Finder separates fact from story before a small gap hardens into a conflict.
How to ask for a change without putting people on the defensive
Public blame gets the work done no faster and trust much lower. A constructive way to ask, built on Marshall Rosenberg's work.
The clearest thinking happens in the room.
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