Welcome to my Blog

Here everything revolves around the topic of how the organisations ability to lead can be improved. Inspired by my daily work, you will find short ideas that are meant to stimulate – stimulate reflection, stimulate questioning, stimulate further research.

Articles will be published about every six weeks. Some will be easier, some harder, some more familiar and some more provocative. In any case, I am curious to hear your thoughts –just email me .

Have fun reading!

22. June 2022

Leadership Patterns

This time, a bit of the historian in me comes out. I want to appreciate an article that appeared 64 years ago in the Harvard Business Review and fell into my hands when I was preparing a workshop. It is "How to choose a leadership pattern" by Robert Tannenbaum and Warren Schmidt, one of the…
2. May 2022

The Goal is in the Way

Goals are often viewed ambivalently in companies: As a rule, they are at the top of the wish list of almost all employees, as well as in the priorities of management. At the same time, they are associated with a lot of effort and little sustainability. In organisational development, they are either "hyped" under the…
21. March 2022

“My bad habits lead to … ” good habits?

Maybe I've been listening to Ed Sheeran too often in the last few months. Maybe habits interest me because they seem to be the opposite of change. Maybe it's a good topic to resume my habit of blog writing. Or maybe it's just all together.... One thing in particular that makes me curious is how…
25. October 2020

Holacracy in the Spotlight: Interview with Thomas Heiserowski, Europace

This late summer I had the great pleasure of talking to Thomas Heiserowski for over three hours. Thomas is one of the two managing directors of Europace. As a subsidiary of Hypoport AG, the fintech brokers construction financing and instalment loans. As part of my work, I am always looking for opportunities to ask companies…
20. July 2020

The cost of high identification

With the summer break providing me with a little more reading time, I’ve recently turned my attention to the book “The rainmaker effect”. The book is written by professor and organisational consultant, Stefan Kühl, who criticises the paradigm of the learning organisation. From his perspective, a stable organisation in the face of permanent change is…
3. June 2020

Liberating Structures – Changing Meetings

These last few weeks have once again demonstrated how valuable well orchestrated group work can be. But they’ve also shown that physical appointments with everyone in the same room need stronger justification to be truly valued. With this in mind, I thought now could be a good time to introduce one of my preferred tool…
14. April 2020

Agility in a crisis?

Over the last few days and weeks I have read many high-quality articles on leadership in times of crisis and my first reaction was ‘everything that should be said has been said’: reflections, practical help, innovative ideas. But on second glance it felt like something was missing. I read a lot of reflections about individual…
1. March 2020

Four essential questions

Today I want to elaborate a topic, already reflected a little bit on my website. Regularly faced with the challenge of having to quickly understand behaviour patterns in organisations - especially with smaller assignments - I have to rely on first impressions, hypotheses or a gut instinct - all without a prolonged period of insight…
16. January 2020

Best practices are for mediocre companies

I always try to use the time between the years for a professional review: What special events took place, what experiences did I have, what did I learn and what can I take away from it all to improve my work? At the beginning of 2020, I got hold of the podcast by Pia-Maria Thoren…
12. December 2019

Gender Bias

A few days ago, I received the Global Gender Gap Report, as published by the World Economic Forum. As a father of three daughters, this is a topic I have been dealing with both professionally and privately for a long time and now seems like a good opportunity to write about it.   In particular,…