We all need guides in our life – people who will teach us, coach us, make us think – people who inspire us. Who is your most important guide? And where did you admire them when you saw them act?
🌟🌟🎄🌟 Merry Christmas everyone! We wish you a joyful and relaxed holiday time with your loved ones! 🌟🎄🌟🌟
This book will help you to develop the skill of smart problem solving. It gives you the opportunity to learn from expert problem solvers how to change things for the better. “Solve It!” presents key results of the fascinating science of problem solving in a very accessible way with a lot of stories about how smart problem solvers like Elon Musk, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein or James Dyson think and act. A short summary of…
Lao-Tzu was a smart guy! The legendary Chinese philosopher who is said to have lived a few hundred years BC (some say around the 6th century BC, others around the 4th century BC) knew very well what leadership is all about: nurturing the self-esteem, enhancing the capabilities, and ensuring the motivation of your team members – the people who do the job. If they perform well, you will perform well as a leader.
Psychologists have tried to identify which leadership behaviors were seen as the most helpful ones from an employee perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the way we work. In many industries, remote work and home offices have become a widespread standard, other industries were hit so hard that many people lost their jobs. As every crisis situation, the COVID crisis also involves a high degree of uncertainty. What kind…
What do people expect from a leader? A Gallup research that involved over 10,000 people identified four basic needs of “followers”: trust, compassion, stability and hope. Trust and stability are the foundation – that´s why leaders need to be clear, predictable, and honest. But we also need leaders who dare – dare to make decisions (sometimes also unpopular ones) that open the way to a better future. This gives us hope. Why would we ever…
Many leaders overwhelm their team members with new initiatives. They want to show that they are “active,” that they are driving the organization forward. But do all those initatives really serve the organization´s core purpose? Do they really make things better? Do they contribute to the common good? Smart leaders don´t immerse themselves in “activity addiction.” They are taking a step back from time to time to consider how they can really best serve the…
Researchers from Imperial College London, Cornell University and Harvard University analyzed job descriptions for top executives over a time period of 17 years from 2000 to 2017. Their analysis shows that social skills are gaining more and more relevance compared to “traditional” management skills. The researchers used methods that are typically also used in machine learning algorithms to analyze how C-suite job descriptions (e.g. for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs) have changed over time. The data was…
You get what you see. If you see potential instead of deficiencies, you will get the chance to unleash potential. If you see strengths instead of weaknesses, you will get the chance to use these strengths. If you see the achievements instead of the failures, you will get more engagement. What do you see in other people?
Here is our first leaderspresso book tip of the month: “Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite” by Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler and Stephan Friedrich von der Eichen. Smart leaders involve a wider group of both employees and experts from outside the organization in strategy development processes to create better strategies (as a higher diversity of perspectives will result in more unique strategic ideas) and facilitate strategy implementation (due to higher level…