Collaboration Within the Leadership Team: Just How Harmonious Should It Be?
Is Harmony the Key to Effective Collaboration?
Leadership teams must be willing to engage with conflicts rather than maintain harmony at all costs—because true problem-solving requires clarity and courage.
#30 Leadership in Uncertain Times
In the case of major restructurings with an open outcome, managers find themselves caught between business requirements, insecure employees and their own search for orientation.
#29 “The Future Is Disorder”
Software becomes commodity. The future of value creation lies in hardware. Not a bad prospect for Germany as an engineering location.
#28 Building Trust, Daring to Trust
Coordination loops, safeguarding, monitoring: Established companies need more time to implement their projects than they can afford.
#27 Leadership: What Is It, Anyway? … or Bye-Bye, Superman!
What kind of leadership approach makes sense in uncertain times?
Instead of heroic lone warriors, today’s leadership requires coordination—a synergy of tasks, relationships, and context.
#26 Entrepreneurship Within a Company: Squaring the Circle?
The call for entrepreneurs in the company is an expression of a longing for more speed and flexibility and the abolition of internal bureaucracy, endless coordination loops, pointless meetings and high transaction costs
#25 You can all go to hell. At least for 20 minutes.
The beneficial effect of a short midday nap is in stark contrast to its reputation.
#24 A Boom in "What-if" Questions
In a world full of uncertainties, the question arises as to how companies like Moderna develop a future-oriented strategy with "what if" questions and bold visions.
#23 What's your take on China?
The former love for the extended workbench of German industry has cooled. We are offended to realize that China is no longer the low-wage country it once was, but has become a high-tech location.
#22 Between the Karma Booklet and Durability
In times of economic uncertainty, there is a growing contradiction between the increasing demands of employees and the challenges of company management. How do you manage a company that is increasingly striving for a feel-good atmosphere and self-fulfilment despite crises?