You are a leader. In normal times you have enough to do to keep your eye on strategic goals, identify and take advantage of opportunities and attain financial goals, all the while supporting, motivating and inspiring your people. Then comes the pandemic, creating new challenges overnight, from ensuring safety to moving your business online and […]
Resilienz-Check: Wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen gegen zukünftige Krisen stärken Zukunftsfähige Unternehmen zeichnen sich durch eine ganz bestimmte Eigenschaft aus: Sie sind besonders widerstandsfähig bzw. resilient gegen Krisen. Doch was braucht eine resiliente Unternehmenskultur und wie können Unternehmen ihre eigene Resilienz überprüfen? Antworten auf diese Frage gibt dieses ca. 60 minütige Online-Seminar, dass am 27.07.2020 von […]
The distribution of decision rights, authority, and resource control is the essence of governance design. The aim is to ensure successful execution of strategy with sustained integrity. And in this context, virtually every executive will claim to want honest, open debate – and be upset if important facts are withheld. However, all too often, resource […]
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines resilience as “the quality of being able to return quickly to a previous good condition after problems”. This simple description belies the challenge many individuals and enterprises are experiencing at a time of widespread uncertainty and in the face of multiple, self-compounding “problems”. But it provides a good starting point […]
Worauf basiert unternehmerische Resilienz? Wie können Sie auch in herausfordernden Zeiten – und ohne externe Berater – prüfen, ob Sie auf neue Chancen und Risiken vorbereitet sind? Dieses Webinar zeigt Ihnen wie Sie mit unserem Tool – eigenständig und sogar im Home-Office – Ihr Unternehmen unter die Lupe nehmen, Stärken und Schwachstellen klar identifizieren, Risiken […]
Lots of people are talking about resilience these days, as the secret to staying afloat and strong in times of extreme challenge. But what is resilience in companies and how can it be built?Clues to the answer can be found in the psychologists’ definition of resilience: psychological stamina, or the ability to survive difficult situations […]
What is greatness in an Organization? It goes way beyond good figures and a solid bottom line, important as these are. Greatness in an organization can be seen in its outstanding performance in terms of people, potential, transparency, agency, governance, lived values and sustainability, all of which will be reflected in its unique, individual culture. […]
In a crisis, we all tend to focus on immediate relief, rapid solutions, stemming current harm and resolving challenges as they arise. Right now, businesses are all making significant adjustments to their operations (including closing down for a period). There is massive disruption all over – and also heretofore unknown amounts of rapid reorganization, including […]
Well, at least that is what some managers would like to believe. In fact, there are a large number of different international companies whose foresighted top management has understood that values-based leadership and an encouraging, supportive company culture are actually highly beneficial for business in the long run. Let’s take three examples from very different […]
While cost-cutting in itself can be absolutely necessary and worthwhile, HOW it is done is very often wasteful and ends up generating higher costs than the intended benefits can ever bring. We speak today of six specific cost-cutting traps. 1) Undiscerning hiring freezes It seems logical: if we think we have too much staff, we […]