How to achieve organizational excellence: Appreciate your performance to unfold your potential
“Kumbaya” – or practicing traditional organizational development About a year ago I told a friend of mine that my new project was in organizational development. He congratulated me and then asked, “so you are sitting in a circle around a bonfire and sing Kumbaya?” and…
2016: what’s to BE
Yes, I do have a number of new year’s resolution. Here is a list of topics I would like to write about: Building a Happy Workplace Forget HR: Why “HR” is detrimental to organizational health and business growth (and what we need to do instead)…
Principles for Organizational Performance
In my last blog post I explained that organizational performance and excellence requires strong leadership with a particular mindset to prosper. What does this mean? There are 5 principles that provide guidance for this philosophy and practice to emerge. Leadership Mindset Organizational Structure Commitment &…
The Heart of Organizational Excellence
In times of increasing competition in the marketplace, organizational excellence or performance is ever more important. But what does ‘organizational excellence or performance’ actually entail? What does it mean? And how can it be achieved? And, even more important, why does it matter? I believe…
Volkswagen’s greed and myopia is just the tip of the iceberg
Volkswagen has shown how greedy and myopic traditional management in corporations is: short-term projects (shareholder interests, EBIT) are more important (or, shall we say the only thing that really matters to them) than delighting customers and our environment. Volkswagen management claims that they will resolve…
HIP Camp 2015 – More than a conference
I have been talking about HIP Camps for awhile. It was a dream, an idea, a plan. No longer: it will become reality. Join us for the first HIP Camp Social Business this summer in Heidelberg. Check for updates on this site or our Facebook…
Business 7.0 – An enlightening, inspirational, motivational book for tomorrow’s leaders
There are countless books on leadership and change management. Most of them have in common that they propose a specific way how to achieve performance and accomplish change. Alas, our world around us, business and we, ourselves, have changed. The traditional linear mechanical model of…
4 simple questions that can help boost team spirit, performance and results
Every morning our team got together for our morning stand-up session. It had become a daily routine. The structure of these 15-minutes standups was simple: we reflected on our accomplishments of the previous day, our planned deliverables of the new day and any impediments we…
The Difference Between Focus and Tunnel Vision
‘One more click, save the file and then close it.’ This is what I thought and did. Or so I thought. Because, did I really? A few moments later my computer gave me the error message, “file upload not possible”. Oops. What happened? The last…
Why ‘Job Satisfaction’ May Be The Wrong New Year’s Resolution
As the new year is just around the corner it’s this time of the year many of us come up with glorious (or not so glorious) New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, most of these don’t last long. Makes you wonder how sincere they were in the…