End of the year is a good time to reflect the past year and get started for the next year. The question is: what are the questions we focus ourselves on? The outcome is not determined by the answers but by the questions we focus our mind on. If we
SPOILER / SUPER KURZE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG * Menschen formen ihr “Sein” nach Maßgabe ihres “Bewusstseins”. Radical Transformation ist das Ergebnis eines tiefgreifender INNEREN Erkenntnisprozesses der nötig ist, wenn Führungsteams die Organisationen nachhaltig transformieren möchten. Denn alles, was im “Außen” sichtbar ist ist Ausdruck von inneren Haltungen, Sichtweisen, Erkenntnissen und Intentionen jenes Personenkreises, der
Man denkt: Es wird Zeit auszusteigen. Aus etwas in das man eigentlich gar nicht eingestiegen ist. Deswegen weiß man gar nicht so genau, wie man aussteigen kann, wenn man ja nicht eingestiegen ist. Man ist einfach, es ist einfach, so ist es halt. Wenn man dann Tauchlehrer in Thailand ist,
Organizations are facing huge challenges They find themselves in an everchanging and fast moving world. The management logic and systems are outdated: plans, budgets, numbers, predict and control doesn’t work, but are still being enforced. People feel disengaged, frustrated, burned out, not empowered, not appreciated. The focus on the
Today I write about nothing. About doing nothing, knowing nothing, wanting nothing and being nothing. In the beginning nothingness was horrifying, like an open monstrous abyss. I could not even look there and relieved myself by keeping myself busy, in the safe space. It is very hard to do nothing.
We live in a goal-driven society. Needing to have goals is an unquestioned concept so far, even with the experience that the world changes in every single moment and goals, once set, become stale immediately. Goals and their implicit promise for happiness and success keep us up and running
When I was a kid I was playing around all the time, like all kids. And I was singing, dancing, performing in front of nobody, I imagined myself to be a musical star. When I was 10, I got on my parents nerves day and night until they agreed to
Organizational life is full of drama: * “There is no trust anymore,” * “They don’t respect our contribution,” * “There is no respect between X,Y,Z,” * “These guys are constantly crossing the red line,” * “We are not willing to work with them anymore, after all that happened.” * ….. These are sayings I
Perfect stems from the Latin word perfectum, which means “completed” from the verb preficere: to finish, to execute, to accomplish. Interesting. Things are perfect when they are finished. If you walk through the Facebook Campus in Silicon Valley, you will find a poster all over saying: “Done is better than
Reality shows up in multiple layers. All kind of forms and shapes are active at the same time, some are dormant, some are just potentials and some are in the background. They all have a different logic and represent a different paradigm. They interact with each other, they are different,
“Aus Fehlern wird man klug”! Ich habe zunehmend Schwierigkeiten mit dem Begriff “Fehlerkultur”, dem Wunsch und Appell aus “Fehlern zu lernen”: 1. “Fehlerkultur”: das verstärkt unsere westliche Defizitkultur. Auf das konzentrieren, was nicht funktioniert hat, wo Fehler passiert sind, wo wir “besser” werden müssen 2. Wir gehen hier unachtsam mit
This is the story of a grassroots organization that emerged within days at a main Austrian train station. A group of young people taing care of 200,000 refugees, coordinating more than 6,000 volunteers, enrolling 48,000 fans on Facebook within days and providing 800 health checks per day,