The Six Dimensions of Winning Teams
Teams with clear goals, values, rules, roles and processes, backed by full individual commitment, are primed for peak performance.
Content: Article | Authors: Alain Goudsmet, Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Teamwork
What’s Keeping Women From the Corporate Heights?
Why women find it so difficult to access top jobs and why the change takes so long.
Content: Article | Author: Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Women in Business
Taking a Closer Look: Reviewing the Organization
The organization chart can no longer help us understand what an organization does. What’s needed in these dynamic times is a much richer diagram that gives us a more revealing picture of a more dynamic organization. That organization can be a hub, a web or a chain. It is critical that we understand each of these forms and how they work in a particular organization. … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Organizational Behavior
The Wendel family: The Wendel Family: “Affectio Societatis” (A) – The Story of a French Industrial Dynasty (1704-1976)
Few of us have kin whose life spans hundreds of years, but the Wendel family could consider its baby long-lived. The family founded a company in 1704 and it’s still prosperous. Professor Ludo Van der Heyden and Christine Blondel trace the family tree and the family business in this case.
“This case shows the history of a large family firm over nine generations of family … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Authors: Christine Blondel, Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: INSEAD | Subject: Miscellaneous | Company: Wendel family
Out With the Old And In With the New: The Countdown to E-Day
The old adage that “money makes the world go round” may never be more apt than it is on January 1, 2002. The introduction of Euro bank notes and coins on this date will be an operation of unprecedented enormity, affecting the currency regimes of 12 European countries. But unless the parties involved in the Euro cash supply chain, and especially consumers, are well prepared … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Ludo Van der Heyden | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Economics, International – Europe