Posts tagged with Self Management:

Leadership Challenge Young Talent
March 6, 2011, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management

Do you know this impression: Wow, this young guy or girl is full of power, ambition, brightness, and confidence? Did you ask yourself the question: How can I lead and develop this agglomeration of energy and intelligence? And further: What do I do as a leader in order to integrate this – may be rules [...]

Giving Employees A Chance For Self-Leadership
January 13, 2011, by Heinz Landau in Human Resources, Leadership, Management

I recently listened to an interview with Thomas Sattelberger, Member of the Board and responsible for Human Resources (HR) at Deutsche Telekom, a German Dax 30 company. When Sattelberger, one of Germany’s most respected experts and practitioners in the field of HR, was asked about the main HR trend for 2011, he pointed out that [...]

Gandhi – A Role Model for Essential Leadership Principles
October 24, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management

These days I conducted job interviews for a middle ranked management position and one of the candidates was a young German of Indian origin – smart, structured, straight forward, with excellent social skills and high ambitions – basically someone you would hire on the spot for a middle management position. Although I knew that my [...]

The Importance of Self-Reflection
September 15, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management

My key finding: we as society execute excellent research based leadership studies, know about excellent theoretical leadership models and communication methods and consider best practice examples of leadership we observe or hear about. Out of history and current research, basically, our societies know everything valuable about this very topic. Our whole knowledge of how to [...]

Why Caring while Leading?
August 2, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership

When I was returning from my summer holidays in South of France I found my seat just aside of a man around forty who was travelling with his wife and his kids. Apparently, the family was on their way home as well. I was reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, headline: VW takes over Porsche.
Having the [...]