Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Dear Women Do Not Train Yourselves Out Of The Game
Mohr, Tara (2014). Playing Big: A Practical Guide for Brilliant Women Like You, 146. Story behind the Passage On some days, it is really hard for me to decide on the topic I want to write about. On other days, it is very easy. Today is one of the easy days because a dear friend of…
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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…
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Broken Elites
Herles, Benedikt (2015). Die Kaputte Elite: Ein Schadensbericht aus unseren Führungsetagen, 136–37. Story behind the Passage Yes, it is not nice to choose a German book again for a blog in English. Still, I decided in favor of this one today because I am constantly being confronted with the issue of elites — or rather with their…
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Effectiveness And Strengths
Drucker, Peter F. (2004/1967). The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, 23–24. Story behind the Passage There is hardly any need to talk about Drucker when introducing my passage today. That is partly because Drucker needs no introduction and partly because I talk about him so often. Just yesterday I mentioned…
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Book Of The Week Der Kleine Kaempfer
Doppler, Klaus (2009). Der kleine Kämpfer und sein Weg ins Glück. Story behind the Book Choice This short book is a treasure. It touched me, it intrigued me, it comforted me. And there is no reason, why it would not do this for others. This book was a gift I gave myself for Christmas. As I…
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Book Of The Week The Dragonfly Effect
Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith, with Carlye Adler (2010). The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media. Story behind the Book Choice Social media are fascinating to me. They have become part of our lives within less than two decades. Remember, Facebook, which really started the snowball effect, was founded in 2004. But…
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Seeing The Element Inside
Robinson, Ken (2009). The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, 3. Story behind the Passage The story above touched me so much when I first heard about it that I keep writing and talking about it in different contexts. I am writing “heard” about it because, as far as I remember, I first watched…
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Trump The Talking Doing Gap And American Studies
Sass, Steven A. (1982). The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School 1881–1981, 293. Story behind the Passage Of course, I have to write about the U.S. election today. But I am not going to write about it in the way that people have been talking about it on TV all day, i.e., about…
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Apprenticeship Versus University Education
Coyle, Daniel (2010). The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown, 64. Story behind the Passage I think a lot about education these days. In fact, I always think about education because it is my life — whether I like it or not. It has taken me up to the present to actually realize and acknowledge this because…
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Patience The Art Of Standing Still
Carlson, Richard (1997). Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over your Life, 39. Story behind the Passage Today, I almost finished writing my first short book on horseback riding. Most of it is not about horses but about humans — in this case me. When…