1. Tax & Complexity
The creation of the Global Tax Leadership Week in the Silicon Valley!
A co-creation between TEI Silicon Valley Chapter and CEDEP (Fontainbleau)

2. The four key questions we reflect on
Do we understand and accept the new tax environment?
Do we have an adapted strategy to deal with a transparent & complex fiscal world?
Has our organisational set up been adjusted to the new tax world?
Do we have the right, balanced and resilient leadership in our team to go to the new normal?

3. Why the program …

4. Where we start from … the Cynefin Framework
Patterns vs. Facts
How to lead the tax function in this complex world
Complex
[Emergent Practice]
Probe-
Sense-React
Complicated
[Good
Practice]
Sense-
Analyze-React
Chaos
[Novel
Practice]
Act-
Sense-React
Simple
[Best
Practice]
Sense-Categorize-React
© D. J. Snowden
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5. The five key concepts we work
Getting a better insight in personal and team dynamics to optimally function in a complex tax environment.
Understanding the importance of alignment between Environment, Strategy, Organisation and Leadership (“Blue Ocean Strategy” concept).
Importance of personal and cultural awareness when working in a global context (“Cultural Map” concept).
Tools & process for optimal communication in change management initiatives (Fair Process & Governance method, a “Blue Ocean Strategy” concept).
Reflection on ethics and morality in the tax debate.

6. we are different …. we focus on ….
Emotional Intelligence
No classic case studies
Talent development
Problem based, action learning
Conveying a sense of purpose.
Understand complex systems
What do you stand for as a leader?
Ethics
Complex strategic questioning
Beyond impacting the company, impacting the world!
Cultural
Intelligence
How to gain energy from uncertainty
Think global
Co-operation / collaboration / partnership
Change / rethink the value chain
Invent the managerial competences of the 21st century
Leverage the group as a learning tool
Leading innovation
Resilience

7. Refine, Reflect, Explore, Apply, Make Progress & Share!
Program flow
…and focusing on the essentials!
Moving forward by looking ahead: the real meaning of strategic alignment.
‘Challenge Pit Stop 2’
Working Session
Applying the new tools
Connecting the dots:
… successfully engaging stakeholders, managing our way forward and assuring a lasting impact.
… plus a word about governance: From Fair Share to Fair Play.
How to prepare a sustainable and re-enforcing management system?
‘‘Challenge Pit Stop 3’
Working Session
Applying the new tools
Effectively navigating your challenge through a multi-cultural environment.
‘Challenge Pit Stop 4’
Working Session
Applying the new tools
Staying Sane …
… and creating a Sustainable High Performance Tax Department
‘Challenge Pit Stop 1’
[Working Session]
Applying the new tools
‘Challenge Pit Stop 2’
[Working Session]
Applying the new processes
‘Challenge Pit Stop 3’
[Working Session]
Applying the new self
YOUR Challenge: The departure!
Revealing, Reviewing & Re-modeling your personal challenge
Getting started …
Shifting your energy to the team: Here & now – as well as tomorrow back in the business.
[Lessons learned from the BIG sport’s teams.]
Roles, Responsibilities & Opportunities in a VUCA World.
The BUSY FOOL syndrome: what’s in the way and where are the levers?
About the quest for “common nonsense”, untapped opportunities and the diagnosis of smart people.
Getting things done: saying more, with less!
About Effective & Meaningful Communication
Swimming with the Sharks (Speaker)
All together now! (Farewell Dinner)
Swimming with the Sharks (Speaker)

8. “One of executive education’s best-kept secrets which employs some of the world’s top business professors, yet it is not a business school; it lists some of the world’s top companies among its members, but it is not a club, and by reputation at least, has a better wine cellar than any business school.“
- Financial Times -