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Selektive Wahrnehmung oder wozu Mehr Perspektiven?
Das Gute im Schlechten und Jemand hat immer einen Nutzen davon!
Schaut auf Relationen statt nur auf Personen
Was definieren wir als Problem? oder schauen wir doch auf unsere Ressourcen!
Ein MANAGER fragt: ich höre überall SYSTEMISCH; Denkt systemisch! Systemisches Handeln für Führungskräfte! Wir sind systemische Berater! – Was zum Teufel ist systemisch?
Wie schaffe ich hervorragende Leistungen mit „normalen“ Menschen?
Stefan A. ist gerade Abteilungsleiter des Controlling Bereiches eines Konsumgüterunternehmens geworden. Er kam aus dem Corporate Development Bereich und hatte bisher fast nur mit „Hochleistern“ zu tun. Mitarbeiter, die selbstständig, proaktiv, kreativ und mit hoher Qualität ihre Aufgaben erledigt haben.
Diese neue Funktion ist eine echte Herausforderung für ihn, denn: Read the rest of this entry »
TRICKY COACHING: DEALING WITH DIFFICULT CASES IN LEADERSHIP COACHING
Here you can find a case study of a difficult coaching situation and I how I dealt with it. Read the rest of this entry »
Sitting now in a house – that was build by my grand-grand father – on an African island. Having lunch with my ex nanny Zohra (the flower).
I ask her: how old are you?
She answers: I don’t know.
Amel: Why not? How can you not know how old you are?
Zohra: Why should it matter? I am living my life and one day I will die, why should knowing my age matters anyway? Others will come after me and live their life, it’s a circle.
This conversation made me contemplative for some moments …
In western countries people tend to “hide” their age because being young is the desired state. You should never ask – especially women – about their age! In the Arab world it is even desired for a woman to become old. You get more respect the older you are! Personally I enjoy that. Everything is getting better so far. I am more experienced, more mature, have fewer complexes, better s… and so one. I definitely do not want to be 18 again.
We can also ask this question for companies. The common understanding is that the older a company gets the better. Why actually? Steve Jobs said in a speech in Stanford: Death is the change agent of life. Perhaps it is time nowadays for some companies to die and leave space for new ones to emerge.
Perhaps it is nicer for people to be old and for companies to be young! Or even to forget about age, it does not matter after all ☺
Common sense but not common practice!
Nobody knows about the future. Communities may help you learn from the unknown.
Today’s crisis has a major characteristic: no body knows what is going to happen in the future. From a philosophical view – we never knew what is going to happen, but we could at least pretend to know in the past.
7 years ago I did write an article on communities of practice as a powerful organizational form and intervention – after many frustrating experiences with an IT approach to knowledge management. In today’s environment they may become very useful. It is vital for every organization, in complex or even chaotic situations with many unknowns, to develop a leadership community that exchanges information, knowhow, views, and scenarios and stays alert to what is happening. Read the rest of this entry »
What does good Leadership really mean in the current crisis?
Obviously you have to get costs under control, but leadership in turbulent times is much more than that if you want to secure the future. Read the rest of this entry »
When the first baby laughed for the first time,
the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about,
and that was the beginning of fairies.
And now when every new baby is born
its first laugh becomes a fairy.
So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
From: James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan
Tiny hands and tiny feet
Someone new for you to meet
Our daughter Leyla
February 25th, 2009.