Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Book Of The Week The Culture Code
Coyle, Daniel (2018). The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Story behind the Book Choice Personally, I am a strong individualist. But I was very privileged to learn in the past that there is some magic to group dynamics. This seemingly illogical formula that the sum can be more than its parts is ‘true.’…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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Leadership Learning
Burns, James MacGregor (2010/1978). Leadership, 63. Story behind the Passage This morning while taking my run, I had a herureka moment. It was facilitated by the fact that I had to write an intro to someone yesterday and I completely messed up. Everything I wrote about me and my business was true. But the problem…