Category Archives: Leadership

In an exchange exchange meeting I had with HR leaders in 2020 f the question came up: Did we select too many fair-weather captains as leaders? People who are great in managing growth, mastering smaller or midsize challenges – but being over-challenged in a perfect storm? We heard about managers who duck and cover, hopingContinue reading “Still Fair-Weather Captains or are we Prepared for the next Perfect Storm?”

In our times of creative disruption, thinking-out-of-the-box, rapid change and transformation nothing seems to be more antiquated than “discipline”. Discipline stands for doing what you are told to do, repeating patterns without own thinking and following as opposed to leading. On the other hand, we all can observe how a lack of discipline destroys value:Continue reading “About Discipline”

Coaching is a method to develop people’s skills and behaviors. As a coach it is important to understand and apply the major principles of coaching which are  –      Keeping strict confidentiality –      See the world through the eyes of the coachee (Empathy) –      Ensuring clarity about goals of the coaching process –      Clearly limiting coaching to developing the coachee,Continue reading “Coaching People”

When this crisis began, most of us (including myself) probably thought it will be just a matter of time until we return back to normal, to “Normality 1.0”. There are, however, fundamental changes taking place right now, which cannot be reverted: Countries and companies suffer in very different ways from the crisis. This changes theContinue reading “Normality 2.0”