No. 26: About dealing with Chaos
This essay was written as an internal assignment of HMC and thus does not follow the classic HMC blog article format. Nevertheless, we would like to share our thoughts on this topic with you and hope that it will serve as an inspiration for you to go beyond that and...
No. 25: When the Head Shuts Down – Bravely Grasp Emotion and Instinct
“Let’s stick to the facts and make some progress” is something often heard in everyday working life in all kinds of organizations, projects and programs. It almost sounds like a paradox to us Change Managers. “Mangers are often speechless when it comes to emotional...
No. 24: Don’t Work against (Your) Resistance, but with (Your) Resistance
In any change process or transformation, there is resistance. It has always been so and it will most likely always be so in future. Unless humans change this as part of our evolution. A common fallacy is that I or people in general have to work against this...
No. 23: Calmness and Courage from the Get-Go – Trust Your Crazy Ideas !
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” This quote by Albert Einstein really sums up what has to be done if you want to initiate a change process. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a period of growth or reorganization, any...
No. 22: Clinging to the Old – Why (Your Own) Change Is So Hard!
It’s always intriguing. Have you ever thought it must be clear, yes, it must be so simple to see what needs to change in your organization... but you can’t work out where to start? Or do you see how almost everyone moans and complains about the current situation at...
No. 21: Healthy Self-Reflection for Politicians, Managers and Teams? Why Active Passive Reflection Culture is Valuable
Through years of practice, politicians and managers are used to giving others answers, showing strength, providing certainty, making decisions and dealing with the most complex situations of conflict. Then you have jam-packed calendars that often exacerbate enormous...
No. 20: Trust – The Most Important yet Invisible Currency
When speaking to organizations, the discussion centers all too often around KPIs, performance, increasing EBIT and other objective matters - sometimes almost exclusively. When the pressure is on, or it feels like it is, focus zeros in on achieving targets. As Change...
No. 19: Top Performance: “Healthy Top Performers” vs. “Worn-Out Workers”! (Part 2)
Over recent years, there’s no question that the mental load on managers and teams has increased. These increased requirements on the individual and on teams can be observed in the sporting world too. You could use football or golf as examples here. Challenges fall...
No. 18: Top Performance: “Healthy Top Performers” vs. “Worn-Out Workers”! (Part 1)
Many of us - especially in private enterprise - want to be successful. But the term “success” actually needs defining. Especially at the beginning of any desired change, it’s important to make it clear to yourself what your goal is and how you would define...
No. 17: Trail & Error Don’t Hurt
One area that will seemingly never be irrelevant in organizations is error culture, or error management, which are often used synonymously¹. On one hand, you can now find information en masse about this topic, and plenty of intelligent studies and guides on how to...