Once companies have reached a certain size, the term “thinking in silos” can be heard more and more often. Individual teams work in their own closed world, then present accomplished results to the other teams and end up wondering about astonished faces and lack of support or even open resistance […]
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Remote work is one of the terms that did not only have a strong impact on the year 2020, but will also continue to shape the future of our working lives. I am very much convinced about that. Of course, you can’t operate the checkout in the supermarket from your
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In August, after German football club FC Bayern Munich won the Champions League final and thus the famous “triple” (Champions League, German championship and German national Cup) for the second time, I wrote a blog entitled “The coach is the better trainer”. After the triple, in the same season, the
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A few days ago, I read an article that dealt with the question of managers about the meaning of their work. Specifically, it was about managers who wanted to make a change in their career despite the Corona crisis. This was obviously triggered by questions like “What actually keeps me
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In a few years, a management coach doing a training session will probably describe the year 2020 as the inflection point for remote management. Several managers, who were used to have their team members around them every single day, have faced a real challenge in 2020. Maybe not so much
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For many of us it is hard to let go and to transfer responsibility or even decision power to somebody else, basically to provide empowerment. A lot of people still think that first of all only they know exactly what to do, how to do it and, more importantly, how
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In the last weeks I very often heard the following statement: “It will never be the same again”. Most of the time, I noticed a lot of melancholy, doubt and even sadness in the voice and the face of the person rather than confidence or any spirit of optimism. I
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On August 23, 2020, German soccer club FC Bayern Munich won the final of the Champions League and thus the “triple” for the second time after 2013, means the Champions League title, the German championship and the German soccer cup. Still in November 2019, after the disastrous defeat against Eintracht
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Millions of books, articles and blogs have already been written about leadership in general or the right way to manage or better lead your employees. Despite this, or probably just because of it, this subject is always a popular and controversial one. Of course, the way in which employees are
