Too many meetings and not enough good practice documents for meetings? If a person spends more than 20% of their time in meetings, Peter Drucker says, the organisation is sick. I agree. Meetings are often held in order to “keep the pulse beating”, “share information”, etc. But often a meeting is a way to escape […]
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Impostor syndrome is the feeling that your achievements have come to you by chance. That at some point everyone realises that you don’t really know enough. It’s not just self-criticism, it’s a deep inner fear that I’m not really worth what I have. The person experiencing this is afraid that at some point others will
Impostor syndrome can often only be “treated” through deep inner work.
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Some have told me: “There is a sense of corporate gaming in your book.” At first, this seemed a strange comment, but later on, after analysing it, and also looking at my many 1-1 mentor clients, I really accept this “diagnosis”. Not because I’m in it so much any more, but it’s very familiar to
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Organisations are full of beautiful words – values, security, meaning, collaboration, commitment, etc. From my own leadership experience and from my clients, I see that often behind the words live the things we don’t want to see. These themes drive us. And as long as we don’t talk about the things that are hidden, we
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It is a lack of personal spirituality. Also in organisations. And I’m not talking about religion. It is not just a lack of spirituality either, it is a fear of spirituality and the stigmatisation that comes from that fear. We are talking about anxiety, burnout and loss of meaning, loss of commitment. But we don’t
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Values are not, of course, just words on a wall. Behind every value are beliefs – deep ways of seeing and interpreting the world. Beliefs, or basic programmes, are largely formed between the ages of 0 and 3, most by age 6 when looking at life at home and around us. 👉 One of the
HONESTY – a common values word in organisations, but why is it not always applied? Read More »
OKR (Objectives and Key Results) principles have recently been actively replacing KPI and other performance management systems in organisations. For those who are not familiar, a brief overview of the OKR framework:🧰 Objective – an inspiring and qualitative goal to reach🧰 Key Results – measurable steps that show the achievement of the objectives🧰 Ambition –
𝐎𝐊𝐑 𝐩𝐚𝐡𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥 – 𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐮𝐬, ä𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐤𝐮 𝐞𝐞𝐬, 𝐡ü𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐦, 𝐥ä𝐛𝐢𝐩õ𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 ? Read More »
We reached this depth with one client who has a great business idea, a specific business plan, a very specific service with great potential and a lot of additional sales opportunities – a real business case. Perhaps sitting across from me was a real entrepreneur with ideas, plans and ambitions. But it turned out that
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That’s what the management textbooks say, and it’s been practised for decades.But if you look deeper, results are just a consequence. Processes are just a tool that people come up with on their own, without a manager. And people don’t really allow themselves to be ‘led’, they need a space where they can really use
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Why is money not flowing into your business even though you’ve tried everything? 💰 Problems with money and profitability are not just a symptom of Excel, but of deeper issues The lack of potential flow, which we see in the problems with money, turnover and profitability, is a hint that there are some barriers to
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