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Book Review: Agile Organisation Development
The book "Agile Organisational Development: Manual for building adaptable organisations" by Bernd Oestereich and Claudia Schröder is aimed at people who want to try out collegial self-organised leadership and agile organisational development in practice. It considers...
Case-Study Complex cooperation
Cooperation becomes particularly challenging when people involved pursuing different goals. One area in which precisely this happens time and again in companies is the interface between sales and (project) implementation. I have often observed here that in...
Hot fall – working shifts and working in dislocated teams in COVID 19 times
Marshall Rosenberg already described in his well-known book Non-violent Communication that people are social beings who are oriented towards togetherness. This would suggest that cooperation is relatively simple because we can do that from our biological structure....
Competent employees – who wants-likes-needs?
Who doesn't want them? Employees whose skills make them ideally suited for a position on the one hand and who are flexible to learn new things. Are competence-based recruiting activities reserved for large companies and corporations that have the appropriate HR...
Appreciation is the key to success
Excellent managers who have a team of highly motivated, independently acting employees know the importance of an appreciative approach. Appreciation activates the frontal lobe of the cerebrum, which in turn is the seat of our emotional, social and rational...
Agile transformation – how does it work?
Business agility, i.e. the transition to an agile organisation, is more than just introducing SCRUM or KANBAN in teams. It is about looking for the benefits expected from agility, such as a faster time-to-market, not only in individual teams, but to realise them...
Self-organised teams decide differently
One of the essential management tasks has always been to make decisions in the best possible way. The emergence of new forms of organisation has not changed this. Nevertheless, a self-organised team needs alternative decision-making techniques in contrast to a...
Five recommendations for self-organisation
The coronavirus and the associated contact restrictions will probably continue to accompany us for some time. This also means that many of us will continue to work more in the home office than in the company. That is why I would like to dedicate this article to the...
Is agile working crisis-proof and also possible in Corona times?
During the last weeks, I heard some interesting comments from my network about agile working in Corona times. Many companies have stopped their agile pilot projects, some managers have switched to "Command-Line" and use “Dailys” to issue commands similar to a morning...
Increased need for conversation in cooperation
Recently I read an article about the increased communication effort in larger teams. The idea was to consider how many communication connections there are in a team, depending on the team size. This diagram shows that there are quickly many communication connections...
Making decisions – what makes it so difficult?
When you have to decide, and you do not see the forest for the trees…Do you know what type of decision-maker you are? In his book, The Paradox of Choice, the American psychologist Barry Schwartz describes how modern man is overwhelmed by the constant need to make...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What‘s that?
Up to now, there is no clear and generally valid definition for the term "artificial intelligence" (AI). Already with the word "intelligence" we have difficulties to find a valid definition. Wikipedia defines AI as "... a branch of computer science that deals with the...
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