Month: August 2016
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Know yourself! 6 ways to implement
Sun Tzu is arguably the most well known eastern strategist. His famous book “The art of war” has almost become a part of pop culture. The book holds thirteen chapters full of advice on warfare. But Sun Tzu’s most important instruction in my opinion is: know yourself! Lost in translation I noticed I have not…
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Great managers: secrets shared with karate masters
One of the blogs about Karate I love to read is Jesse Enkamp’s. Jesse – unlike me – manages to explain complex concepts using simple sentences. Great Managers and Karate Masters Recently he posted an article about the one secret that all Karate masters have in common. It immediately resonated both, with my martial artist’s…
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Single point of truth: 6 suggestions
The other day I received two emails from my engineers. Both of them had summarized a meeting they had attended representing their respective business units. If I had not known their emails were describing the same meeting I could not have told: They both gave me a totally different summary. Clearly we were in need…
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Leadership rule number one
Tons of books have been written on leadership. There are dozens of styles and concepts, each with a nice name tag attached. Maybe that is why so many managers are confused about ground rules of leadership today. Here is my leadership rule #1: People should feel better when doing the right thing than when doing…
