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Articles, reports and publications of all kinds
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
Editor:
Signum(2005)
ISBN
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978-3-854-36380-X
I like to work for him!
Editor:
Signum(2002)
ISBN
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978-3-854-36336-1
Vertical take-off
Editor:
Modern Industry(1994)
ISBN
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978-3-478-34910-9
Leadership power
Editor:
Springer Verlag(1994)
ISBN
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978-3-409-18724-4
On the way to the organization of tomorrow
Editor:
Poeschel Verlag(1991)
ISBN
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978-3-791-00571-5
Leadership knowledge selectively
Editor:
Gablers Magazine(1991)
ISBN
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978-3-409-18718-9
Efficient leadership
Editor:
Gabler Verlag(1990)
ISBN
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978-3-409-18707-3
Alternative leadership
Editor:
Gabler Verlag(1984)
ISBN
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978-3-409-19600-0
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.
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.
