Social Distancing has been around longer than Corona. In many companies “keeping a distance” is part of the company culture. What social isolation does to people is now increasingly being highlighted by Covid-19 and it’s consequences. Finally, you might want to say! Because being cut off from other people can be just as harmful for […]
“Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps”, was the title of a successful guidebook published in the year 1998. And even today, people from the entertainment industry fill huge venues with their stories about shoe-buying women and taciturn men. How simple would the world be if we could just label and categorize everyone. […]
So what are skills? ”Skill is the infinite potential of people in an organization. It is everything people bring with them and want to contribute.” (The sky’s the limit and so on.) When is a skill a skill If you want to work with skills, the definition should be a bit more specific. Because not […]
Since March of this year, Digital Leadership primarily means Remote Leadership. Companies are discovering that being able to work from any location comes with many advantages, but also with new challenges. Ultimately, they all lead to one big question: How much physical proximity does leadership need? How do team leaders manage to make all employees […]
Many people have experienced the past weeks and months since the beginning of the Corona crisis as an emotional rollercoaster ride. Uncertainty, anger, gratitude, feeling overwhelmed, a spirit of optimism – living and working under completely new circumstances have made the different facets of human emotions visible not only in the personal realm but also […]
The “Gig Economy” has a bad reputation: the US company Uber is on a suing spree, AirBnB has made it necessary to create new rental laws, delivery services and platforms for creative services are under fire. Ok, hold on, Gig Economy – what was that again? – The analogy to the musical gig actually fits […]
Nowadays, being in therapy is no longer something to be ashamed of. More and more people openly acknowledge that there are things that they cannot manage on their own. Some might even say it is “en-vogue” to go to therapy. My house, my car, my therapist, and so on. Most likely every development brings its […]
As we all know, normality is a question of perspective. ‘That’s not normal!’ some people might say. Others might ask ‘What is normal?’. And the next group will claim ‘Normal is boring’. And: Who wants to be boring? Don’t we all want to be a little bit different? And don’t we have to be a […]
Der Wandel, über den seit Jahren diskutiert, philosophiert, geredet wird, der seit Jahren auch ZERredet wird, ist auf einmal da. Und das mit einer Wucht und Schnelligkeit, die viele überrascht hat. In guter Hinsicht, aber nicht nur. Denn die Erkenntnis, dass von jetzt auf gleich nichts mehr ist, wie es war, hat viele Menschen auch […]
Purpose gilt als einer der Grundpfeiler von New Work. In “Reinventing Organisations” spricht Frederic Laloux vom “Evolutionären Sinn”, mit dem Unternehmen neuen Typs “tanzen”. Das klingt auf den ersten Blick vielleicht einen Tick zu esoterisch, im Kern trifft es aber eine wesentliche Überlebensstrategie von Organisationen in einer Welt, in der sich Anforderungen und Bedürfnisse permanent […]