Date:Posted By:Category:Das Buch, Leadership, The Book

That mindset blur

Organisational developers or people transformers assess their workforce and put each of us into one bucket: Growth XOR Fixed. From there, there are logically only two avenues: either “develop” fixed mindset ones into growthers or get rid of them (and hire growthers instead). This view is not only supercilious and patronising,…

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Date:Posted By:Category:Das Buch, Leadership, The Book

Cookie wise and success foolish

Recently I met — completely unrelated — a number of people who told me “My (new) boss is obsessed with numbers”. “Well”, I thought, “very good!”. Being obsessed with numbers is not the worst thing for a boss (besides being obsessed with people). After all, it’s business we’re talking about.…

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Date:Posted By:Category:Das Buch, Leadership, The Book, transformation

THAT Project

This is another confession and another apology. I cast that stone many times. Not openly. No, much more subtle. Well trained in the refined behaviours of (corporate) politics. It’s hardly an excuse that almost everybody does it. Almost regardless of rank and title. That deteriorating project I am talking about…

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