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45 years of aptitude diagnostics

The beginnings

Aptitude diagnostics have accompanied me throughout my professional life. Today I am still very active as a management diagnostician. During my doctorate, I was fortunate enough to meet two greats in the field of aptitude diagnostics, from whom I was taught a know-how that is not so easily accessible to a student. One was…

Where does the misconception that leadership is a complex thing come from?

Leadership is presented in today’s world as becoming increasingly complex. Some may experience it that way. In a way, I can understand it when I see what is recommended to managers, which must be taken to heart if you want to lead effectively. The vast majority of these recommendations are mere advice. Advice is also blows. I would like to bear this in mind and recommend to anyone who has leadership responsibility not to be influenced by false advisors …

When the motivation for performance is in the basement

Whether managers or leaders, when the motivation to perform slips into the basement, a descent into darkness begins for many people. Those who have arrived there isolate themselves and find it difficult to accept help in their isolation. The collapsed motivation to perform develops into an inability to perform as a result of excessive demands. This condition is called burnout. It can be expensive for companies …

Performance.Culture.Focus – The Triad for Entrepreneurial Rethinking

Rediroma-Verlag, Remscheid 2022, ISBN 978-3-98527-618-9

Milestones: Digital Transformation, Cultural Change, Leadership

Performance culture in the focus of digital transformation – machines take no responsibility

Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-19796-4

Milestones: Digital Transformation, Cultural Change, Leadership

Performance from culture – How “employees” become top performers

Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8349-3404-8

Milestones: Performance Culture, Fluid Organization, Human Image, Leadership Psychology

Integration through identification

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Signum(2005)

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978-3-854-36380-X

I like to work for him!

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Signum(2002)

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978-3-854-36336-1

Vertical take-off

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Modern Industry(1994)

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978-3-478-34910-9

Leadership power

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Springer Verlag(1994)

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978-3-409-18724-4

On the way to the organization of tomorrow

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Poeschel Verlag(1991)

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978-3-791-00571-5

Leadership knowledge selectively

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Gablers Magazine(1991)

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978-3-409-18718-9

Efficient leadership

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Gabler Verlag(1990)

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978-3-409-18707-3

Alternative leadership

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Gabler Verlag(1984)

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978-3-409-19600-0

Digitisation

The Anti-Matrix Organization

“The future belongs to dynamic systems”

Wolfgang Saaman, specialist for organizational systems.

Machines assume no responsibility

Digital transformation is inevitable. New leadership thinking is in demand like never before. Employees cannot be programmed like machines. They should be prepared and inspired for new paths.

Wolfgang Saaman, writes about the HOW for the German Employers’ Association.

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Specialist

Networked learning and developing new things

Our competence development program for Bertelsmann relies on innovative approaches (collaborative communities, learning journey and organizational design) and contributes directly to the corporate strategy.

“We have to bring leadership thinking into the future.”

Why personality and values are always important.

Specialist
Specialist

Managers as a change model

Every manager regularly accompanies change processes. Taking the employees with you is a central task. A critical look at this challenge, which every manager encounters several times in his career.

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