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Hope
We have already written about hope as a leadership attitude* at a time when it still seemed to many to be something esoteric. Starting from Paul's so influential phrase in the first letter to the Corinthians »Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but love is the...
ExEdService Pack – a useful database for your Leadership development
You are searching for an experienced speaker? Dr. Rüdiger Müngersdorff is listed at EdEx. Leadership development made easy: An ExEdService Pack that not only provides an excellent overview, but also direct access to more than 100 trainers from the best business...
Agile leadership: factors of success
The last years have seen radical change to the environment in which businesses have had to operate for success. The field is increasingly grasped by VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Digitalization, globalization and growth of networking...
Mental Change? Agile organizations need new »identities«
On the agile triangle (methods, structure, culture), one of the most difficult aspect remains that of cultural change; that is neither new nor surprising. What we call culture is a combination of many factors that cannot be grasped by causal thought and are therefore...
Five Stars
Together with the following endorsement of one of our trainings we were asked, what is the difference between a good leadership-training and a five-star training? The answer is relatively simply – don't elaborate on one of the uncountable leadership theories but give...
Pathfinder 2016 – Leading the Future – Berlin, May 1, 2016
SYNNECTA and the Pathfinders almost have a tradition by now! We met once again this year in Berlin on May 1st with CEOs of leading companies, inspiring speakers and about 800 talents from Allianz, Daimler, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte and Techniker Krankenkasse....
Pirate Leadership: A Dramatic Appeal for Self-Organization in Business
It is the early 1800s. The British warship HMS Surprise is about to engage the enemy. The crew are all preparing below deck. The portholeopens and the captain climbs down in order to commit his men to the sea battle with the French privateer Acheron: »Right lads...
New Leadership – New Organizations
Criteria for a Successful Transformation (Part 1) Everyone knows that an organization's viability for the future is decided by its ability to react and adapt to fast and fundamental changes to its conditions. Many know how organizations can be modernized, transformed...
Pathfinder 2015 – Leading the Future – Berlin, May 1, 2015
CEOs chose a forward-looking topic, nominated speakers and about a hundred talents each from their own organization to meet in an aeroplane hangar at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin on Labour Day. It was a successful idea, and there was a passionate host: Gabor...
New Leadership for a New World – A diagnostics instrument on the issue of VUCA
Follow-ups The leadership situation of today and tomorrow is characterized by planning ambiguities, the demand for faster adaptation and abrupt strategy alterations. VUCA is the term that was coined to describe this situation. Is your organization prepared for it?...
New Leadership for a New World – Democratizing Organizations – initial realistic steps
In 2010, Georg Diez wrote in the newspaper SZ Nr. 275: »We are on the brink of this new century, the contours of which we can at least discern. A new green hedonism, a new technology euphoria, a crisis demolishing old hierarchies and enabling new realities, thus...
The Future starts today
The future starts today. It is going to be the way it will be. And yet it was decided yesterday and today whether we will be ready for it, successful and content. Our prediction tools have by now taken on the guise of magical rituals. We are under pressure to perform...
New Leadership for a New World – On the Sustainability of Organizations
New developments everywhere! People are vigorously finding solutions. Possibilities are opening up. Future is emerging. Knowledge is largely accessible. Spiritual awareness is growing. Many breakthroughs happen because people are taking their fate in their own hands...