If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.
– Albert Einstein –
The American Management Association announced in 2019 that office politics cost a productivity loss of more than $100 billion in the United States alone.
The Manager Magazin describes office politics as opposition within work context, not related to the subject matter: Namely the ‘Hidden Agenda’
A hidden agenda is always a pursuit of a personal motive driven by wishes, fears, and emotions.… Continue Reading “Is it better to accept Hidden Agendas as unavoidable or to take action against them?”
According to organizational Psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, who specializes in personal profiling, there are three main reasons why there are so many incompetent leaders:
👉 We are having a difficult time distinguishing between competence and confidence
We tend to believe that confident people are competent leaders.… Continue Reading “𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖠𝗉𝗉𝖾𝖺𝗅 𝗈𝖿 𝗂𝗇𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗉𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖫𝖾𝖺𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗌”
I came across a study published by Compamedia and the University of St. Gallen that researched employees‘ mental health in the work environment and the impact of healthy leadership by interviewing 15.000 people in 2013. Saying, that employees with good mental health are more likely to identify with their employer (+54%), feel more integrated (+23%), and are satisfied (+30%) among other factors that greatly benefit the company:
– Employee loyalty +26%
– Wellbeing + 30 %
– Engagement + 19 %
– Businessperformance + 15 %
– Intention to quit – 75 %
– Destructive engagement – 63 %
– Resignation – 52 %
Companies should seriously ask themselves how to contribute to good mental health in the workplace.… Continue Reading “𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲𝘀‘ 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 – 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿: 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲!”
Next week, I am going to be a guest at the Microsoft 2go event to speak about how leadership enables and cultivates innovation.
Get excited and join the event:
https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/289729/157-GQE-382… Continue Reading “Leadership & Innovation Podcast”
Thinking of the many changes the devastation of the Corona virus has brought us, there is one in particular, that I am quite curious about. Namely the fact, that the whole world is forced to work from home whenever possible. This incredibly huge turn of events is all the more interesting as home office was widely denied before Corona hit us all.… Continue Reading “HOW HOME OFFICE IS GOING TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE”
There are plenty of posts and articles that explain the facts of how the change from waterfall to agile has to happen in order to be a success. One thing we all know is that the change of mindset is one of the hardest to overcome within the agile transformation.… Continue Reading “PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AN AGILE TRANSFORMATION”
Dear Reader,
welcome to my new blog of the digital project world. With these pages a long-awaited dream comes true – my very own blog. Now, I would like to take my love for digital products one step further by exchanging experiences with the like-minded on this blog.… Continue Reading “WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL PROJECT WORLD”