What an opportunity, I had a seminar about finance and liquidity in Beijing and Tianjing this January and I added some more days to find out about the places. My biggest surprise was the logistic in Beijing (of course a post olympic effect), but nevertheless. Ask any travellor with Asian experience and they will all ask ...
Change
Trend: Go Nordic
Most of the European movements have started in the Scandinavian countries and they set the targets for Corporate Governance, Equality, Education, Work-Life-Balance and of course for a turn-around in economics. Now the oldies like Shell und BP recruit nordic talents from the techie-field (read later). Scandinavia is well known for its IT-Innovators like Linus Torvalds who ...
Leadership – Facilitation – System Thinking
Good question about leadership: Is Blanchard right with Servant Leadership? "Sadly, too many top managers still think leading in this way will lead to mutiny. They conjure up images of the inmates running the prison or leaders trying to please everyone. Instead of becoming successful servant leaders they become the opposite; they become self-serving leaders, who ...
Organisational change model – Corporate Structures
Claudia Schmitz gave a short input on "Behaviour in Corporate Structures" and their change along the growth curve at the Celemi Partner Meeting in Budapest, April 24, 2009. Her colleague Jose Ochoa from Madrid used the new technology of livescribe and visualised the content and recorded the voice of Claudia at the same time. This