Blog No. 45 – Management of realities , or: “Who determines reality?”
To start this blog, I would like to begin with an important clarification of what "reality" means in the official definition of the “Duden” (German Dictionary). According to this explanation, it is about a) truth, b) real way of being, and c) actual givenness/fact....
Blog No. 44 – Ritualized business behavior: stronger than any pattern!
As change managers we (inevitably) have to deal with cultural, group dynamic and personal behavior patterns again and again. This is usually also clear to many in the organizations and companies. What is only very, very rarely or not at all taken into consideration...
Blog No. 43 – What is really important for me? Courage to live anew!
In the course of our socialization period, even in organizations, we are constantly being told how important the team is, how essential collaboration is, how crucial the needs of the company or organization are, and that we must always adapt and change. In everyday...
Blog No. 42 – About the Problem Spiral
Who isn’t familiar with this: You want to change something in the team or company and discuss it in a large group first, and you hear sentences such as: Sentences such as these not only make life difficult for people who are creative enough to develop new ideas and...
Blog No. 41 – Of Theorists and Practitioners
A few years ago, I visited an event that was organized by the local university together with a project management association. An economics professor and his doctoral student presented a self-designed tool that was intended to simplify the anonymous evaluation of...
Blog No. 40 – Humanity in Management: More Expected Today than Ever?
As modern humans, we have spent the last decades living with unbelievable technological progress. Do you also sometimes think that, despite these leaps in development, humanity at its heart has not really developed? Particularly considering the recurrent military...
Blog No. 39 – (Organizational) Silos: The Bare-Faced Truth Isn’t for Everyone!
Do you know the feeling: You have a conversation for the umpteenth time about the more or less fatal silos that dominate a company or organization? This concerns limiting areas that, in the best case, have a limited promotional effect and, in the worst case, are so...
Blog No. 38 – Identification – Learn from the High School Movies!
If you’ve spent some time in a US high school, or if you enjoyed watching high school movies as a teenager, you’ll know that these institutions invest a lot of time and money into creating a WE feeling: For example, students arrive to every major campus event in...
Blog No. 37 – The Important of Representation – Why Change Is Needed Here in the Business World as Well
Every year, usually in March, we have an Equal Pay Day, and ideally, the public debate centers for a few days on how and why women still do not have equal rights and, for example, earn considerably less than men. Unfortunately, there are still voices (mostly from men)...
Blog No. 36 – With that New, Good Energy!
We often hear that more motivation is needed. Dissatisfaction rules, because it seems as if the same thing happens over and over again. The umpteenth reorganization, the umpteenth performance optimization, the umpteenth... If you look for your personal thing, it’s...
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