Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Book Of The Week Good To Great Part Ii
Collins, Jim (2001). Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don’t. Story behind the Book Choice There are days when I have no idea how on earth I could be so crazy as to start daily blog and a “Book of the Week” section. Just last week, I did not get through…
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Book Of The Week Good To Great Part I
Collins, Jim (2001). Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don’t. Story behind the Book Choice Today is one of these days again when I will not get through with the reading. But it does not matter. I got done with many other things today that are more important. Success is all…
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Coaching Not Coaches
Fischer-Epe, Maren (2015/2002). Coaching: Miteinander Ziele erreichen, 175. Story behind the Passage Today, I had a wonderful meeting with a person I had never met before. This person said a remarkable sentence: “The world needs coaching, not coaches.” He based this on a similar saying about something else which I forgot. I had never heard…
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The Voice
Murakami, Haruki (2011). What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, 19. Story behind the Passage On some days, there are simply no words left. How often do you have to tell people that writing is vision, mission, and method at the same time? Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who writes about writing….
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Reading Helps
Hynes, Arleen McCarty (2019). Bibliotherapy: The Interactive Process. A Handbook. Story behind the Passage Today, someone shared with me that the reading circles we did in the past weeks actually helped her overcome a personal problem. And I mean — a serious personal problem that had to be treated professionally. Then she participated in the circles and…
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Processes Like Zippers
Paksoy, Turan et al., eds. (2019). Lean and Green Supply Chain Management: Optimization Models and Algorithms. Story behind the Passage Somehow, the past always comes back to you. Or maybe you make it come back. Whatever you believe in — it does not matter. Just enjoy whatever life allows you to encounter. And for me, this currently…
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Feeling Ready
Lelord, François (2010). Hector and the Search for Happiness. Story behind the Passage First, you discover that happiness is the thing you experience every day while you keep looking for it. Then you discover that everything you do to make you happy depends on the stories you tell yourself about yourself. As soon as you…
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Modeling Excellence
Ash, Mary Kay. (1984). On People Management, 65. Story behind the Passage Last week someone mentioned that I should not worry so much about how to call what I do. What matters is that I do what I do and thus “model” what I stand for. Fine, that is what I call “walking the talk.”…
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Between Ambition And Arrogance There Is Self Confidence
Schmidt, Silke (2021). Narrative Change Management in American Studies: A Pragmatic Reading, 360. Story behind the Passage Today I am actually quoting from my own book. I just have to because this post is going to be the answer to a question I received about it. I started at least five different attempts to reply to…
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Listening
Amann, Melanie, and Christoph Schult (2021). “Ich weiß nicht, ob man das überhaupt heilen kann.“ Der Spiegel. Story behind the Passage Sorry to tell you but today, I am going to again deal with virtues, at least partly. The reason why I am sending out this warning is because I have been talking about virtues many…