When I took over the management of the company, the beginning was tough - working six days a week, long hours, trying to understand everything, learn, and make the right decisions. I was tense
Many years ago, I participated in a leadership development camp in Scotland. I was very young and had no leadership experience at all, and received this opportunity to test, how I could meet the requirements. We were from many different countries, and we spent a week with solving different tricky tasks
Being a leader always reminds me of an old movie, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. The workload is enormous, the goal is far away, and even though there are supporters, family members, friends with whom you can share problems, somehow you are still alone
I remember when I was part of a large organization, at the beginning of each year, we'd gather to set our annual goals, documenting them in Workday, and we reviewed what we've achieved in June and at the year-end. The system theoretically worked quite well
I recently caught up with an old colleague and mentioned to him that I seem to be slowly overcoming my mid-life crisis, a period I found challenging. He sympathetically responded, acknowledging the difficulty of such experiences and expressing hope that I had received help
I don't remember exactly how the question sounded during the discussion of a possible interim task, but that was the gist of it, and I think it can be one of the biggest dilemmas when someone starts thinking about involving an interim specialist.
The fact that I bring up the topic of cleanliness and order in the plant again and again is no accident, because my experience shows
Yesterday my friend Laci, whom I haven't heard from in a while, called me and asked how I was doing. After a short conversation, he blurted out that he saw that I had started working with organizational development
I came across two confusingly similar stories the other day, both dealing with the issue of empowerment. In the first case, an old colleague of mine joined a small business. As a group leader
I think it is true for all kinds of production that we want to produce good quality at low cost, only the definition of good quality and low cost changes. The two endeavors can be completely well handled
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