How the concept of “Gentle Action“ started intriguing me It was one of these long evenings up in the Sierra Nevada after another day of hard work in the olive garden in Spanish February – warm during the day, cold at night. We gathered around the fire place of the cosy
Why I am done with transformation For the longest time of my professional life I have been working, researching and thinking in terms of transformation – my highest intention was to help organizations – or social system – transform. Transformation in the sense that something already has taken on a mental and structural
If we look at our key burning questions like climate change, inequality with all its consequences like wars and poverty and the soaring number of mental suffering one could get hopeless and desperate. How on earth are we going to solve these problems? I would suggest to look deeper at
Summary When Leaders create a Vision they struggle because they think they need to describe what the organizations should look like in 5-10 years from now. Of course they can’t because the future is unpredictable. I would like to suggest a different approach to a Vision, that is
Es sind Menschen wie Gandhi, die ohne Macht und ohne Gewalt ganze Kontinente transformieren. Und wir erleben gerade jetzt, wie ein Kind wie Greta Thunberg die Machtelite der Welt aufmischt und eine globale Bewegung unter Schülern anführt. Hoffnung gibt uns auch die neuseeländische Premierministerin Jacinda Ardern, die eine neue Möglichkeit
The same few names come to our minds when we think of great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and mother Teresa. Maybe Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau.. and a few more. Why are they different, special and powerful? None of them was born into a position of power. They were
End of the year is a good time to reflect the past year and get started for the next year. The question is: what are the questions we focus ourselves on? The outcome is not determined by the answers but by the questions we focus our mind on. If we
SPOILER / SUPER KURZE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG * Menschen formen ihr “Sein” nach Maßgabe ihres “Bewusstseins”. Radical Transformation ist das Ergebnis eines tiefgreifender INNEREN Erkenntnisprozesses der nötig ist, wenn Führungsteams die Organisationen nachhaltig transformieren möchten. Denn alles, was im “Außen” sichtbar ist ist Ausdruck von inneren Haltungen, Sichtweisen, Erkenntnissen und Intentionen jenes Personenkreises, der
Organizations are facing huge challenges They find themselves in an everchanging and fast moving world. The management logic and systems are outdated: plans, budgets, numbers, predict and control doesn’t work, but are still being enforced. People feel disengaged, frustrated, burned out, not empowered, not appreciated. The focus on the