Imagine being on a sailing ship in a storm. Or underwater and one of the scuba divers has a serious problem. Alternatively: Your department or even the whole company threatens to fall into economic slump. And now ask yourself:Do you have time for ineffective actions in such a situation?The question...
Guide for effective communication
Concise communication and information decide in most cases on the success and failure of professional coexistence. This is especially true in situations of upheaval or crisis, when the situation seems to be working within the company or within one's own team.Read on under the original source.
changement! Momentum and impact in turnaround situations
It may surprise you, but after more than 17 years working as a interim manager in a restricted time frame, I am convinced that without my experience as a technical diver, I would not be up to the challenges of this activity. As an interim manager, I am under pressure...
Artificial intelligence – artificial stupidity
Sometimes such a feeling creeps over me. Somewhere in my stomach it manifests itself a first time.It tweaks and pinches here and there.In most cases, I ignore it, you do not have to assign space and meaning to every flatulence. But in some cases, it´s got to come out.And today...
Enterprises and ships must dance
While sheer size in the past few years was a key success factor for companies - especially in the research-intensive market segment - today the signals are increasing that classical evolutionary factors such as agility and adaptability play an increasingly important role. The video of the dancing ships shows for...
Management – rocket science, arts or crafts?
Manchmal ist Management nichts anderes als solides Handwerk. Mit einer Prise gesunden Menschenverstands, der Entfesselung des eigenen Buzzword-verseuchten Hirns und ein wenig Schmalz in den Arbeitsmuskeln gelingt so manches Husarenstück. Wenn man es dann noch schafft, nicht-dogmatisches Denken obendrauf zu packen... Unternehmen und unser Handeln als Manager ist voller Routinen,...
Ambidexterity
Ambidexterity - a wonderful word. Hardly anyone understands it, you can talk about it much better. Out of sheer processes, SOPs, procedural and behavioral rules, we have become blind to the obvious things. Stoic and dull we run on well-trodden paths, we go pre-marked paths ... ... instead...