23. April 2010
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“Staff development is a major task of leaders.”
I guess this is one of the most popular sentences in management and leadership literature.
The advantage of this sentence is that you will receive a bright agreement when mentioning it in a round of executives.
“Yes, staff development is extremely important” or
“Staff development should take most of a [...]
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10. March 2010
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Big problems require great spirits.
What are the really difficult issues and challenges in your field or in your department that you are confronted with?
Probably they’re strategic issues or in other words very fundamental things.
Now, how do you deal with such issues?
Do you try to develop appropriate solutions on the q.t.?
Do you work out towards this [...]
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5. March 2010
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Do you know this fine smell of self-baked cookies that passes through your house after these little friends have been lying in the oven for a while?
It is spreading this unique feeling of coziness and closeness which we all know so well and which we just can’t escape.
Children are standing right in front of the [...]
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16. December 2009
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Most people don’t think about how they come to decisions.
That is due to the fact that most of our decisions are made subconsciously.
We make hundreds of decisions every day.
It starts in the morning quarreling with oneself whether to get up at 5 a.m. or not and it ends in the evening when setting the alarm [...]
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19. November 2009
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Good question.
I think it’s the most important and relevant one that has to be asked at first when someone intends to learn something about how to become a holistic leader.
It surely makes sense to start with a definition of the word leadership.
Definition Of Leadership
“[Leadership means the] process of social influence in which one person can [...]
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