About twenty years ago, I asked the neighbor girl about her plans, and with sparkling eyes, she told me she wanted to be a DJ. Her school grades weren't impressive, she wasn't particularly talented or diligent, so I wondered what would become of this child when faced with reality
I have been thinking about this topic for more than a decade now, always referred to under the working title "Three Deaths," based on Lev Tolstoy's collection of short stories, "Three Deaths"
When I took over the management of the company, the beginning was very tough, working six days a week, with very long hours. After a while, this started to decrease, but there was still room for improvements, like the hopeless and endless meetings
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
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.
"You see, what you say is good, I didn't even think about that, that it's not enough to develop myself, see things, and move forward, but I also have to pull them along
From the beginning, my desire, if you like my vision, was that I would like to work in a calm and stable manner, if possible, not to do firefighting daily, but to focus on essential tasks. As a leader
There are awkward situations in the life of a company when it is very unclear how to proceed. We get some vague hint that we are being sold, there is a big complaint, and we
Last week, we were reminiscing with a former colleague, and the story of my second most expensive bad decision came up. At that time, I was asked to represent the European factories in a project
We often underestimate the possibilities of what we can do in our free half hours and the amazing potential that as a leader we can influence the organization for which we are responsible