Learning How to Learn – From a Poker Pro
In this unusually hot summer, I’ve had a hard time making progress on my reading list. The upside is that I listened to more interviews. One stood out among the many excellent ones: Getting Better by Being Wrong (the Knowledge Project with Shane Parish interviewing...
What to read this summer…
Summer time, holiday time – delightful places, fine weather, delicious food, but also queues and noise at ridiculous prices. Holidays come with big chunks of unstructured time, for even the most ambitious hikers and sightseers occasionally get bad weather, or a...
Sommer – Leselust, Bildungsfrust…
Sommerzeit, Urlaubszeit: viele Menschen, Schlangen, Lärm, überzogene Preise, und Schlendrian bei schönem Wetter und köstlichem Essen an herrlichen Orten… Zum Urlaub gehört auch unstrukturierte Zeit – selbst die fleißigsten Wanderer und Besichtiger erwischt...
The 2nd Loop: Setting, and Staying the Course for Your Career
In this issue, we will explore the second loop of the leadership spiral in some detail. This stage is where people’s focus shifts to managing managers who in turn manage others. This is where people set the course for their future career – because another...
Towards the 2nd Loop: From Managing Individual Contributors to Managing Team Leaders
The last article looked into the intricacies of the first loop: managing a small team, i.e. reaching specific results with usually tightly budgeted resources. Most people, as they walk on the straight towards the second loop and as teams get bigger, realize quite...
1st Loop: From Managing Your Individual Contribution to Managing People
After your first promotion, you are either leading a small team (typically consisting of the people who used to be your colleagues, i.e. your “friends from work”), or a project team. That was the moment where you had to learn a few new tricks, as I mentioned in the...
