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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…