Leadership Beyond the Leader with Björn Vikard

About this episode

Björn Vikard shares insights on leadership and organizational culture from his extensive experience across various countries.

Send us Fan Mail Episode #102 of Pre-Zero Sports Talk features leadership advisor and former COO Björn Vikard in a raw, honest, and deeply insightful conversation on leadership, succession, trust, systems thinking, and high-performance culture. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience across Sweden, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and Thailand, Björn shares hard-earned lessons on cross-cultural leadership, rebuilding broken trust, founder dependency, organizational culture, and why great team...

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Host: Sid Bensalah

Guest: Björn Vikard

Topics covered

• leadership
• succession
• trust
• systems thinking
• high-performance culture
• cross-cultural leadership
• organizational culture

Keywords

• leadership
• trust
• high-performance culture
• cross-cultural leadership
• organizational culture
• succession
• systems thinking

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Organizations: Pre-Zero Sports Talk

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