The Cornerstones of Effective Leadership: Trust, Communication, and Collaboration

Leadership, trust and communication form an interdependent triad that drives effective collaboration. These elements are inseparably connected in a cycle: one cannot exist without the others and together, they become […]

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From Cave Walls to Boardrooms: The Evolution of Collaboration

Imagine living back in the Stone Age, when survival depended on our ability to combat the harsh elements and threats of the natural world. Would you have been able to […]

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Trust Arrives on Foot and Leaves on Horseback

“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” – this saying, attributed to Johan Thorbecke, the Dutch politician who played a role in establishing our country’s first constitution in 1848, […]

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Can We Build Relationships Without Trust?

The saying goes: “Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback”. In other words, trust takes a long time to build and can be destroyed in a minute! Trust is […]

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How to Build Trust in a Remote Environment

Trust is one of the cornerstones in successful alliances and partnerships. We build trust in many ways, for instance, we observe people’s behaviour and unconsciously it helps us to answer […]

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Build and Maintain Trust

Tip 20: Build and Maintain Trust Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, one of the most influential Dutch politicians of the 19th century, once stated: “Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback.” […]

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How to Become a Trusted Leader

Trust is an important cornerstone for successful collaborations. I’ve written about this topic a few times in the past. In his book “Trusted Leader”, David Horsager takes the topic to […]

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My CEO Wants a Joint Venture

“My CEO wants a Joint Venture” is one of many quotes (or similar) that I often hear when  in conversations with potential clients. The desire for this form of partnership […]

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Trust, Alliances and Culture

Trust is an essential element for building and maintaining successful alliances. With a higher level of trust between the partners every alliance will have a bigger chance of succeeding.  As […]

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Can we do business with the speed of Trust?

Monday morning, May 15, 2018, 6am in the Netherlands: the moment this newsletter was delivered to your inbox. In about three hours I will be landing in Singapore. After touch […]

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We don’t need a contract, we need trust

Can you have a successful collaboration without trust? I mean any collaboration: with another company, with a colleague, inside a team, with your boss or with your subordinates. Can these […]

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Trust or Control?

Recently, I had two situations in coaching engagements with customers where control was getting in the way of the development of a potential alliance. In one of the cases, the […]

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