Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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Special Dear Gaas 3 Pragmatic Suggestions
About the DGfA/GAAS — Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien Story behind the Passage This Special should not have been written. But I could not resist. I received a New Year’s Letter from the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) this past week that brought the entire issue to my attention again. I am not going to write about…
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Book Of The Week 100 Million Hair Ties And A Vodka Tonic Part Ii
Trelles-Tvede, Sophie (2020). 100 Million Hair Ties and a Vodka Tonic An Entrepreneur’s Story. Story behind the Book Choice Last week, I started discussing Sophie Trelles-Tvede’s book about the founding and expansion of invisibobbles but I did not get through with the reading (Part I). That is obviously why I have to do my remaining…
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Book Of The Week Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior
Jackson, Phil and Hugh Delehanty (1995). Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior. Story behind the Book Choice I have no idea how I became aware of this book and when exactly I bought it. But I know exactly, why I bought it. Sports, leadership, and spirituality — these are the things that move me and at…
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Questions And Interventions
Blanchard, Ken, and Michael O’Connor (1997). Managing by Values, 85. Story behind the Passage Currently, I am dealing with Byron Katie’s “The Work” method again. It is a powerful method on how to get rid of negative self-images. I am not going to talk about her today, I might do it in some other post. The…
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Banana Republic Germany
Banana republic | Definition of Banana republic at Dictionary.com Story behind the Passage Today has been a wonderfully warm, sunny, and pleasant — almost summer — day — in Germany. But you know what? Now I am really close to exploding. This is because I just had a conversation with an international graduate student who shared part of her story with…
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Self Esteem And Education
Branden, Nathaniel (1969). The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A New Concept of Man’s Psychological Nature, 105. Story behind the Passage I am really stupid. I know, this sounds like the completely wrong entrée into this post, But let me explain. I am just recognizing how deeply I am into all issues relating to education. In fact, the…
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Either Or Is Killing Dreams
Sher, Barbara (2006): Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the LIfe and Career of Your Dreams, 126. Story behind the Passage There are so many endless circles, I cannot count them anymore. There are always two results: interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue are the catch words. But the funny and…
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Cutting Out The Middle Men
Platform Business Model explained…in under 100 words | Deloitte Switzerland Story behind the Passage As you know, I can be quite passionate about things. The thing I am most passionate about is injustice. Of course, injustice is everywhere and we cannot all turn into Mother Teresas to fight it. Still, people with my personality traits…
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Positive Psychology And Resource Orientation
Lopez, Shane J., and C. R. Snyder, eds. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology, XXIII. Story behind the Passage I cannot remember when exactly I got in touch with Positive Psychology. I think, it was in the U.S. Or it was when I read Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi when I was a teenager (I…
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Goal Orientation As A Mindset
Kepner, Charles H., and Benjamin B. Tregoe (1976/1965). The Rational Manager: A Systematic Approach to Problem Solving and Decision Making, 172. Story behind the Passage Usually, when thinking about management topics, I write about Peter Drucker’s works. If there is one thing that Drucker perfectly balanced (in my view), it is the mixture of deep humanism…