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When I talk with my trainees about authentic, value-based leadership, invariably there comes the time when this gets questioned in one of the following ways: What about this example of leader XY [...]

Piggy-backing on my last article, today we are going to look at what to keep an eye out for when building company culture, and critically, when building a good company culture. So, what do I mean [...]

I had a couple of interesting experiences recently from a customer point of view with, let’s call it a large German transport company. You know when you have a strange or negative [...]

I am pleased to present the eleventh part of the my article series on inspiring people in my life. My inspiring colleague Florentine Dräger  is on the ‘hot seat’ today.  I am so [...]

Ist Ihnen der Begriff  Ambiguitätstoleranz schon mal begegnet? Ist nicht unbedingt ein Wort, was man vergisst. Und sicherlich, vor allem seit der Covid Pandemie, und definitiv seit den [...]

Vor kurzer Zeit las ich einen Kommentar der ungefähr auf folgendes hinauslief: Der Autor beklagte die folgende Situation, in der, wie er sie betitelte “armen Führungskräfte“, und der [...]

Continuing the series on empathy, today’s article is about the value of fostering empathy in your organisations. Empathy, often described as the ability to understand and share the feelings [...]

This month’s, and maybe beyond, topic is empathy: What is it? How does it contribute to psychological safety? How do you develop it? etc.. Today I would like to talk more about how to build [...]

Building on my last article on empathy, today’s is an impulse piece on empathy and building a psychologically safe environment. Psychological safety means: ‘a believe that there will [...]

The last few weeks and months have left me, next to feeling slightly lost for words, with an even deeper conviction that empathy is a key skill for humans: in life, in leadership, and in [...]