Leadership - What Really Matters: A Handbook on Systemic Leadership (Management for Professionals)

appeal to the receiver. In order to decode this information, leaders have to be able to read between the lines. Thus, if a leade ...

3.1.3 Stimulating Instead of Giving Orders The goal is to not interfere with existing systems but to stimulate them in order to ...

The points of departure are “dynamics,” which, as the sociologist Niklas Luhmann determined, arise from interactions, actions, d ...

Today financial capital is no longer in short supply. The actual bottleneck is related to ideas, knowledge, entrepreneurship and ...

all sentimentalism and all superficial claims that “we all love each other,” emotions, expectations, fears and taboos need to be ...

The energy level of a company is determined by the intensity and quality of its energy. Activity, interaction, the ability to re ...

By pursuing the “winning the princess” strategy, the leadership drives the company into the passion zone by creating fascination ...

possesses many different shades. Dark gray for example might be permissible in one situation but lead to failure in another. Suc ...

Orientation on resources It should be the first maxim of a good leader to truly make use of existing opportunities. They should ...

Peter M. Senge has shown in his management classic “The Fifth Discipline” (see Senge 1996) that leaders and companies alike can ...

convinced of its worth, or just because they do not see a chance to change jobs or are too well paid to quit. In this way one ca ...

3.2.3.1 The Inner Mirror Leading requires us to know the determinants of our own personality, our individual shaping, our images ...

3.2.3.2 One Individual – Many Faces Virginia Satir is one of the most influential figures in the family therapy-oriented approac ...

Virginia Satir compares the different faces of a man with a vibrant mobile, the parts of which form a whole in harmony and balan ...

as a child? What role did I slip into in certain situations, for example, in confrontations with my father? The inner script, al ...

3.2.3.4 Leading Yourself Thus, a modern developmental concept starts with the personality of the leader, with their inner drive, ...

your own impulses. A leader should ask himself or herself the following questions and answer them honestly: “Do I really want to ...

who face up to their own feelings, interests and views, only those who respect themselves, can respect others. If a manager is n ...

The leader can and should use his or her network to share and exchange ideas with employees, and to show them the necessity and ...

contain an important message that others can orient their actions on, and they captivate the listener. Throughout the evolution ...