If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.
– Albert Einstein –
I came across a post by a person with a massive follower base, asserting: “Leadership is not a question of time but of attitude”. It was said all it takes is to ask your team members how they are doing and show an interest in them.… Continue Reading “Leadership Revelation: Turns Out, All You Need is a Great Attitude…Just Kidding!”
Companies should conduct a psychology and skill screening on people holding leadership positions.
When leaders underperform, the consequences are often reflected in various aspects that may not be directly attributed to the leaders themselves. Which makes this weakness challenging to identify.… Continue Reading “Shocking Twist: The World Realizes Stable & Inspiring Leaders Might Actually be a Good Idea”
Companies should conduct a psychology and skill screening on people holding leadership positions.
When leaders underperform, the consequences are often reflected in various aspects that may not be directly attributed to the leaders themselves.
Which makes this weakness challenging to identify.… Continue Reading “𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 & 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗲 𝗮 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮”
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon Susanne Cornelius‘ (CEO Douglas Brands) post in which she articulated her guiding principle ‚People First!‘, which aims to benefit both the employer and the employee equally.
This led me to wonder whether people truly understand what ‚People First‘ really means.… Continue Reading “‚People First‘ because who needs Profit when you have happy employees, am I right?”
Are there still companies that do not know how to address quiet quitting? Yes, too many and they miss out on huge potential.
My aim is to present this viewpoint solely from the perspective of ‚employer benefits‘ in order to potentially reach those who need to understand this.… Continue Reading “How Companies can tackle Quiet Quitting with excellent Leadership”
Have you ever felt like the feedback you received, was unnecessary and unfair. You may have fallen victim to projection.
Given the significant number of narcissists occupying leadership positions, projection is a serious and common issue, especially, when they are giving feedback.… Continue Reading “𝖸𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖢𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖼𝗎𝗅𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝖺 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗅𝗍𝗁𝗒 𝖥𝖾𝖾𝖽𝖻𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝖢𝗎𝗅𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾 by Minimizing 𝖯𝗋𝗈𝗃𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗈𝖿 𝖲𝗁𝗈𝗋𝗍𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌—𝖧𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺 𝖿𝖾𝗐 𝖳𝗂𝗉𝗌”
A common understanding of empowerment in business is that decisions are delegated from managers to their teams, in the hopes that the experts will make better decisions faster.
Moreover, it is expected that teams will enjoy the autonomy and freedom to make decisions without any guidance or oversight, while managers can devote more time to other activities.… Continue Reading “The Fairytale of Empowerment: What Managers get wrong about it”
These are the topics that are likely to follow us everywhere in 2023:
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
For us in leadership positions, there is no way around the following topics. I love the list as it shows how much the world is changing.… Continue Reading “Hot Topics in 2023 — Leadership, Digitalisation, Workplace Culture”
To gain a deeper understanding of the reality of leadership and ist impact on performance, it is important to understand how managers view themselves. So let’s take a look into a Gallup Engagement Index to learn more about their self-perception.
It was found that
🔹only one out of five employees are motivated to achieve outstanding #work results due to the #leadership style they experienced
🔹18 % of employees were already thinking about leaving the company
🔹69% had confirmed that they had at least worked with one bad line manager
👆Yet, 97% of managers considered themselves good leaders and saw no shortcomings in their leadership skills whatsoever.… Continue Reading “If you want Performance, watch your Leaders! – A Reality Check on Leadership”
Thoughts on intuition by some of the greatest minds of the past 100 years:
💡 „The only real valuable thing is intuition.“ – Albert Einstein
💡 „All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts, and not analysis.“… Continue Reading “Intuition: Decision Making of successful Entrepreneurs and Scientists”