Unwritten systemic laws, that is what we started talking about in my last two blog posts, initially in German, followed by English. In those I focused on the balance of give and take and how important that is within organizational systems. Also about how people can intuitively tell if that balance is out of kilter […]

Humans are born with an intuitive knowledge of what balances a system and when red lines are crossed. For example: if the give and take in a system is unbalanced, people recognize this, actively or unconsciously, and can tell there is some level of injustice or imbalance. Even if they can’t name it directly, the […]

Ungeschriebene systemische Gesetze – kommt Ihnen komisch vor? Dabei sind sie uns intuitiv bekannt und in Fällen von Grenzüberschreitungen sofort klar. Zum Beispiel: ist der Ausgleich von Geben und Nehmen in einem System, zum Beispiel einer Organisation, nicht gegeben, erkennen die meisten Menschen das intuitiv als Ungerechtigkeit. Auch wenn es nicht gleich benannt werden kann, […]

Or not! I am sure you have read umpteen articles about motivation, some of which maybe on this website. Most time of my time spent with leaders focusses on what they would like or think they should be doing. Which is all well and good, but its towards the end of the week, it’s been more […]

A short while ago I introduced the inner team and how it can support introspection and self-leadership in difficult and ambiguous situations. Today I would like to go through an example with you on how that can work for leaders. Working with the following scenario, that may ring familiar in the current situation (this is […]