Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching

  • Book Of The Week Playing Big

    Mohr, Tara (2014). Playing Big: A Practical Guide for Brilliant Women Like You. Story behind the Book Choice This upcoming Tuesday I am going to run a workshop on “Gender Diversity” at a graduate school. In preparation for this, I thought it would be nice to finally read Playing Big. The book has been sitting on…

  • Book Of The Week The Alliance

    Hoffman, Reid, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (2014). The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Story behind the Book Choice This time, it is very easy to understand why I bought this book. It is about talents and employer-employee relationships. This topic has been occupying me since my first days at work after graduating…

  • Reading Games Players

    Peterson, David B. and Mary Dee Hicks (1996). Leader as Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others, 56. Story behind the Passage Today I watched a documentary about Bastian Schweinsteiger, the German soccer player. It really moved me. It was done by the German film maker Til Schweiger. To me, the movie was another masterpiece of…

  • Just Research

    Cvetkovich, Ann (2012). Depression: A Public Feeling, 19. Story behind the Passage No worries, I am not going to talk about depression today, in case you are thinking that when looking at the book title. Even though, I could to say a lot about this, I refuse to do so. If you want to learn about…

  • Reading Body Language

    Molcho, Samy (1998/1983). Körpersprache, 158–59. Story behind the Passage Today, I recorded my first zebra podcast with an entrepreneurial colleague of mine. He is an expert in communication and that is, of course, what made me think of Samy Molcho today. I have no idea at what age I learned about him. As far as…

  • Introverted Output

    Cain, Susan (2013). Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, 71. Story behind the Passage I am running the risk of repeating myself by being a bit critical about the current status of social, political, and business affairs. Still, I have to talk about all this again. Someone today mentioned that…

  • Book Of The Week Elizabeth Arden

    Shuker, Nancy (2001). Elizabeth Arden: Beauty Empire Builder. Story behind the Book Choice If you want to learn how women became tycoons, there is no way around the beauty business. This already explains a lot about one of the most fundamental principles of business: solving problems while also sensing a market behind the products you are…

  • Dear American Studies What Is Your Value Proposition

    “The Value of the Humanities” (2018). Deloitte and Macquarie University, 8. Story behind the Passage Today I am not talking about a book, I am talking about a study I found online. It is one of the most helpful studies to explain the economic value of the humanities. There is just one tiny cosmetic problem:…

  • Thinking About Artists Maybe

    Hesse, Hermann (1974). Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend, 113. Story behind the Passage It is not easy to not know what you do exactly. This afternoon, a dear friend of mine asked me to send her some info about me because she wanted to pass it on to someone who was interested in getting…

  • Intercultural Being

    Trompenaars, Fons, and Charles Hampden-Turner (2003/1997). Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business, 13. Story behind the Passage I am not on any dating platform. But I have blind dates quite often. Today, I had another one. It turned out to be such a wonderful conversation. No, it was not meant to…