I spend most of the time with men, and that’s OK. I like them, I appreciate them and they respect and like me as well. I have nothing against women, on the contrary! But my job as executive coach and consultant is taking place in a men’s world.
Recently I made an amazing discovery. I was upset and confused and didn’t know what to do. All options seemed to be impossible or a huge trade-off. Not even Christian, my wise husband, could help. Whatever he said, didn’t seem workable. I went to the kitchen, frustrated.
My whole life, I suffered from contradicting feelings, wishes, thoughts and goals that showed up at the VERY SAME time. I want stay and to leave, to speak and to listen, to do this and that. All at the same time. I can deeply hate and totally love the same
“Tuning the human biofield” – I had no idea what that was all about which is why I went to Eileen McKusick’s talk last year at a San Francisco Conference. Nevertheless, it sounded interesting and promising to me. I’m curious by nature, and California is the place to open
“When we were young and free”.. höre ich gerade. Ja, als wir jung waren, da waren wir frei, da waren wir echt. Da waren wir wir. Und jetzt? Sas ist passiert? Erziehung? Erwachsenwerden? Das Leben? Die Welt? Warum glauben wir eigentlich, dass wir unfreier werden je erwachsener? Und warum glauben
Viele Organisationen bewegen sich äußerst schwerfällig und behäbig. Mehr Anstrengung führt zu immer weniger Ergebnis und immer mehr Druck. Ein anderer Weg wäre, diese Muster zu hinterfragen und sich diese bewusst zu machen und neue auszuprobieren. Organisationen haben grundsätzlich die Kompetenz, zu eleganten sehr effiziente Organisations- und Verhaltensmuster zu finden.
Many people are led by a deep belief that stress, pressure and heaviness are proof we are working hard enough. Sometimes they are even proud of all the sufferings they go through, – proof! But what if, on the contrary, a sensation of lightness and flow shows the right track? A
Traditional hierarchical/pyramidal organizations are still the prevailing way corporations and most social systems are being organized. Although many of them are not workable and not delivering the necessary performance and innovation, it may be too risky, too difficult or too impossible to change the structure. (Not only) in this
Many articles and books have been published on how to master complexity, so I will not repeat that here. I will share with you the ONE major learning extracted from my recent years of working in the field of organization and complexity: You cannot master complexity with complex systems (theories)
A few months ago my iPhone 5s literally disappeared. Somewhere on the flight from Hongkong to Zurich. I almost fell apart. I was shocked. I was desperate. I terrorized the whole airport to bring me back my phone. All in vain. It was gone. Thats it. I felt like I
When we asked members of a major client organization what they felt about their own organization, they came up with surprising feedback. They stated and even complained, that everything is so “comfortable, we all feel comforted and nice and there are no consequences for non performance” and so on. (It
I stumbled over or better into that quote by Joseph Campbell these days: most people and organizations put a lot of effort and energy in creating a clear path. When planning a mountain hike, I will most probably choose a mountain that has been explored, download the different routes that