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Pretending to lead

As long as one is mentally stuck in the previous millennium, one tries to ensure an outdated claim to leadership,
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When the best becomes standard

It has always been difficult to form an opinion about companies, products, employers, employees, travel destinations, films, books, authors, and
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The matter as such

The description of actions, behaviors, interactions, processes, systems and the like seems at first glance simple - select, observe, describe,
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The proliferating everyday complexity

Gregory bought a new laptop - a bargain with everything you need. After switching on and entering a few more
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The publication triangle

Consistent networks and various channels not only offer a platform for publishing to classical media providers, but also for all
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Off the beaten tracks to wreck your own company

Mythology has provided us the story of Narcissus, who was condemned in revenge for being insatiably in love with himself.
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The ability to apply resources

There was a time when employees were cogs in a big machine. They had a fixed position in the clockwork
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The character of the provider is in the offer

The good offer is determined by an appropriate price. But when does it fit? In the simplest case, two variables
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The boiling frog – the ideal metaphor for small changes

Everyone is happy in spring, when the sun invites to go for a walk. If you live in a climate
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Getting to the point

After six months of intensive teamwork at locations around the world, the results are eventually available. The yield of new
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Reducing unintended consequences

The increasing complexity of tasks inevitably results in narrowing of the perspective of the acting persons. Increasing time and cost
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Stimulate recognition

Sometimes we let inspirations vanish unused that seem to come out of nowhere and strike like lightning, although we desperately
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Inevitably alternative facts

Facts become conveyable through language, signs and numbers. The oldest signs were painted on the walls of Stone Age caves
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System relevance – verbal showstopper

System relevance is a current euphemism that is used by all possible parts of society to underline the importance of
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The pretended purpose

The complex interplay of purposes and means as well as the influence of the unintended consequences leads to a certain
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Purposes, their means and unwanted partners

Wheels first appeared on a Sumerian drinking cup as early as 5 millennia ago. The wheel was not known in
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Five more ear sharpeners

Ear sharpeners are phrases that require attention. Messages consist of descriptions that are intended to convey facts. Additionally, speakers send
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In search of the right rhythm

The word rhythm is derived from the Greek rhythmós, "measure of time, and beat" and describes a temporal division into
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Learning to fly

Since everybody is latently connected with everyone and is exchanging constantly data, we have to deal with too much of
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The inevitable look at activities

Before work was divided into ever smaller steps that could be learned in a very short time, most activities were
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Swat team into the dark

Shortly after midnight a man was walking his dog. At the end of his street he saw a group of
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After is before

Distance is a term that feels more like the distance between Earth and Sagittarius A (26,5000 light years) than the
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That’s all there is

On 24 December 1968, a photograph, taken by William Anders while orbiting the moon with Apollo 8, changed its global
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When optimized processes have to function in the crisis

"We have to keep moving. Now heat the ship with the ship!" On the first day the superstructure and the
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Using MONO/POLY

With more and more precise watches, we seem to get closer to the phenomenon of time since the sundials of
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The first step is the right image of human beings

Despite the digital euphoria, we will not see that human labor will be extensively transferred into the cyberspace in a
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Changes of times transform meaning

Looking back in history is convenient, because it can explain everything retrospectively. We are following a life and feel that
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How much remains for managing a project

The image that we have of project managers is determined by our imagination. A project is a temporary undertaking of
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42 – The faith in the ONE Solution

Somehow the search for the world formula, the Theory of Everything, seems to permeate Western thought. While the Greek philosophers
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Bureaucracy prevents

The reign of the administration is actually an outdated way of steering a company - with objective, formal, regulated, verifiable
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Through the veil of symptoms

We still have no explanation of how we are actually able to think consciously. Already the appropriation by means of
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Em@ilettes become more important

In Germany, we receive on average more than twenty business-related e-mails per day - almost twice as much as three
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Comparisons that over-do

All living things derive their essential energy from the environment - the vital food and liquid are absorbed. These inventories
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When the noise is not not perceived

The dilemma with PR is the way in which publications are used to consciously affect public opinion with methods adopted
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When there is nothing left to negotiate.

History is coined by conquests and subjections. Driven by the interests of an alleged stronger counterpart, negotiations tend to become
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We only recognize, what we recognize

For all those, who do not master Chinese, Cyrillic, Thai, Arabic or cuneiform script and hieroglyphics, those written documents in
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Nagile Mindset

All those involved bear their cross written on their forehead when implementing agility. With a little attention, you quickly can
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The human being – the ideal metaphor for organizations

Anthropomorphic assignments always happen, when we deal with things as if they were enlivened - the dialogues with the computer,
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The lighthouse – the ideal metaphor for a reference point

The longest active lighthouse was the Pharos of Alexandria, the seventh of seven wonders of the ancient world, which was
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SSS – Supplier Satisfaction Survey

Henry Ford emphasized on mastering the entire value chain. He ran a rubber plantation to ensure the raw material for
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