"Nachgedacht" - The Blog around Organizational Development, Leadership, and Collaboration
This is where I write, infrequently, about sense and nonsense in the world of managers and consultants, things which occupy my mind, some serious, others funny and frank. The contributions are intended to entertain and to inspire further thoughts about the challenges organizations and leaders have to face today – and tomorrow.
Organisational Development: Identity Theft is not always illegal 05/2025
Organisational Development: are we many? About Alfred Escher, border areas, my wife and me, a Schnitzel, Integration, and confidence.
Leadership: Back to the Roots 03/2025
Leadership: honest communication is a must. About therapeutic orders, bad luck, profit, dents, good food, and happiness in life.
organisational development: fun for fun? 01/2025
fun should come from the centre, not from the periphery. About Happiness Officers, horses, organisational tinsel, clowns and zombies, Mr. Laloux, and leadership quality.
The Satirical Retrospective 2024 - 12/2014
It’s time again for my annual satirical retrospective. Today it’s about corpses at the table, helvetic Shamans, crowded hotel rooms, undercomplexity, and quality goods.
Organisational Development – hot about listening? – 11/2024
In Organisational Development, You can’t delegate listening. Today it’s about microfones, cat videos, Families who are left in the lurch, laughter balances, and honest presence.Organisational Development – what is actually my Job? – 09/2024
helping each other is underestimated. Today it’s about death by suffocation, hermits, misconceptions, Monthy Python, the hippocratic oath, magical thinking, and clever planning.Leadership and Organizational Development: don't learn from top level Sports – 07/2024
Top-Level Spors is a bad metaphor for leading organisations. Among other things, today it’s about folklore, Lara Gut-Behrami, Mikhaela Shiffrin, Roger Federer, business risks, nobel prize winners, the Middle East conflict, and Michael Jordan.Leadership: Leading and Real Work – 05/2024
Leadership is not just a part time job. About Constipation, coffee cups and printer paper, changing jobs, systemically needed functions, tightrope walking, and physics lessons.Leadership: Integrity as a Unique Selling Point? – 03/2024
Some things should not be normal. Today it's about fake videos, freedom of empathy, spoiled brats, parties in Hurden, and bad style.New Year's Letter to Managers: Time for Leadership – 01/2024
Leadership is (almost) everything. About visions potential, blinders, scaling, and the joy of performance.
