Too many recipes at the moment, but this is my life experience of working in companies: 1. Simplify to make decisions 2. Understand what is important and what is urgent 3. Communicate the truth and give insights to why 4. Make cuts, find waste, optimise cash flow 5. Intensify the relation to your customers and your suppliers 6. Know yourself and ...
Leadership
European Leadership with African Style?
Truly successful leadership is founded on a knowledge base influenced by Western, Eastern and tribal traditions, and fuelled by group dynamics, says leadership development guru John Adair. So why aren't we tapping into it? Very intersting story told by Louise Druce from the community Knowledge Board today. I like very much the three ...
Quality – is a way of thinking
Lian is a quality manager in China and working on a big quality improvement initiative in Nanjing. Today she comes back from vacation in Europe and is shocked visiting the work place: “You cannot imagine. All what we had achieved and worked out before the summer break, was gone. They had fallen back to the ...
What big teachers said: Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1929
"Truth is a pathless land'. Women and men cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. They have to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his and her own mind, through ...
Peter Block – new book about Community
If you do not know Peter Block, have a look at his blog and understand that he talks about deep feelings, that drives people (or not). Now he moves away from the CEOs and busy managers and looks to another field of being and life: Community. If you ever have been in a network ...