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Archive for 2011

Football Team Shows Excellent Leadership Of High Performance Organizations (HPO)

Thursday, 15 December 2011

5 year research by http://www.hpocenter.com (HPO Center) on High Performance Organizations (HPO) in 1.470 organizations in 50 countries show 5 success factors to improve the performance. These kids in this video play football / soccer and show how it’s done! This High Performance Team first shows bad leadership, no communication and innovation, no inspiration and […]

High Performance Namibia…one step closer

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

On behalf of Maastricht School of Management and the HPO Center I visit countries all over the world. Not only “privileged” countries like the US, UK or Germany, but also many third-world countries. Visiting students and executives in these countries gives me enormous energy. Emerging markets and ambitious people. Countries like Namibia.

HPO Factor – Management Quality – Fast Action-taking

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Action-taking is defined as ‘the process of doing.’ Management is the art of getting things done, and therefore fast action-taking is very important. Unfortunately, research shows that only about ten percent of managers actually take purposeful and swift action.

Servant Leadership and HPO

Monday, 30 May 2011

Servant Leadership an Idealistic Philosophy or the key to a High Performance Organization (HPO)? Source: AHOLD Europe – Human Resources Update 12 After my graduation (business Administration at VU University) I became part of the HR Services Support Team. I really like working at Ahold Europe and learning in practice. However, my “scientific heart” is […]