Working with R&D colleagues in a rather distracted time
Working with R&D colleagues in LifeSciences is fun and has also some challenges – read more in this article
Outgrowing High-Performance
Remember a decade ago, when it was the goal of every organization to create high-performance teams? It was all about productivity — cutting out slack, being as efficient as possible, and predicting what would happen next through data.
Today, this is no longer enough.
With everything around us changing, it’s about time to evolve – again- how we define successful teamwork and look at the next maturity level: highly adaptable teams.
Can Culture substitute Leadership?
“Psychological Safety is our enemy. An urgent intensity is our operating principle.” – That was Elon Musk’s reaction to Twitter’s friendly, discomfort avoiding culture.
Is he right? Is a task-driven culture more successful than a relationship-oriented one?
Common misconceptions of self-management
In our digital world, many companies try to get a more agile workforce to keep up with fast-changing market needs by introducing self-organizing structures and cutting back on established management practices. If you are part of such a change or planning one, continue reading to get an insight into the common misconceptions that we experienced in our work with global players that went down that road.
Trust or: why less is sometimes more
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A former colleague once told me: “It’s October already, and I still have four sickdays left. Let’s see when I will take one or two of them.” I was a bit confused, since to my knowledge there were no sick day vouchers. It turned out that our consulting […]
Let us get rid of leaders! Self-organization is the new deal.
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] I have a confession to make: While reading the trending book “Reinventing Organizations” from Frederic Laloux, I was observing a rising feeling of disgust in myself when self-organizing companies where portrayed. Looking for the root cause of this feeling, I realized it is the understanding of leadership that […]