How ideal team roles enhance potential
What impact do team roles have on collaboration and performance, and how can they be optimally assigned?
Enabling Agile Teamwork
How to implement modern work structures and digital analytics in this process The current crisis has made it obvious how important digital transformation is in order to maintain a presence on the market. Organizations must develop strategies for optimal implementation – and the HR department in particular faces challenges in this regard. There is often […]
Super-Chickens: Things Teams Can Learn From Them
In theory, teamwork is an excellent way to connect people with different skills for the best result. But in reality, we often experience dysfunctional teams which fail to collaborate. Companies often find it hard to understand why the teamwork has failed. Evolutionary biologist William Muir at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, has dealt with this […]
What Defines a Good Team Architect?
What is a team architect?An architect plans the construction of new buildings or organizes the redesign of old ones. He designs thoughtfully and makes sure that all components are arranged correctly so that they can fulfill their purpose and form a solid and durable structure. A team architect basically does the same thing, only in […]
Systems Theory – Corporate Management Reconsidered
New processes in demand When it comes to the “future of work” or “modern business management”, we often hear about the systems theory. But what does that mean? In the corporate context, business administration is of great importance. It is a teaching that describes the formal structures of an organisation – including its hierarchical relationships, processes, rules and […]
Self-Organized Teams – Just Let Them Do Their Work
While it has long been known theoretically that outdated management concepts in modern companies no longer work, their practical implementation often lags behind. Rapidly changing working conditions and digitalised fields of work demand new forms of team architecture that enable teams to work in a self-organized manner. The crisis has clearly shown how quickly working […]
Inspiration: Google ‚Project Aristotle‘
What makes a winning team? This question has been asked by managers for many years and in countless studies. In 2012, Google launched an initiative code-named “Project Aristotle” to investigate hundreds of Google teams and find patterns that show why some fail while others achieve their best. The findings of the study had an important […]
Shared Why – „The Intersection of Why“
Meaning or Purpose is still the most discussed factor of successful collaboration. The definition of Purpose is sometimes very heterogeneous. We want to change that and establish a model of the ‘Shared Why’. The famous video of the TED talk “Start with Why” by Simon Sinek has now been clicked over 6 million times and has […]