Ideas, tools, advice, food for thought for leaders
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” As Jeffrey Pfeffer, the renowned organizational theorist, puts it, our success in the professional world often depends less on the hard skills and actual deliveries...
Networking is one of those things that people know they should do, but at the same time, they dread it more than anything. I have even gone so far that I decided to do...
I remember the first time feeling the power of a question. I was preparing for a new project, which had a lot of focus from various stakeholders in the organization. Each of them had...
I recently read “The Employees” by Olga Ravn. It is officially a science fiction book, which takes place in the not-so-distant future, yet quite a bit of distance away from the Earth. It is...
I was talking to a team leader the other day and our conversation turned to the topic of digital transformation. What she said, shocked me at first. „I do not really care about technology....
One of the things I got really wrong at the beginning of my career was not fully owning my personal development. I grew up in a culture that was very explicitly telling me not...
I want to share a personal story. At some point in my career, I decided I wanted to be a consultant. It seemed to me at that point that consultants have a really diverse,...
The absolute majority of leaders have to deal with change management at some point in their careers. In fact, the majority of people do that. Change is a given, the question is only how...
I was at the gym today. It was after a bit of a break due to the lockdowns and restrictions. I was slightly nervous: it was one of the most intense classes the gym...
When I first got interested in leadership, I was not sure I understood what do leaders actually do? I was following various leadership gurus on their social media. I knew that leaders do not...
When people ask me, where they should start as new leaders or after getting a new team, my answer is always: Set up the rhythm. I am not talking about some sort of musical...
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