Goodbye, Facebook
November 22, 2012, by
Stephan Polomski in
Corporate Social Responsibility,
Marketing Do you like lobster? Cooking one appears quite cruel: you put the lobster alive into boiling water, the head first. A friend of mine is a professional cook; he uses a nail and a hammer killing the lobster before cooking it. These are the animal friendly ways of handling the issue. However, there are people, [...]
Career versus Family? – New Mindsets Require New Approaches for Employer Branding and Talent Management
April 26, 2012, by
Stephan Polomski in
Human Resources,
Leadership,
Management What young talents perceive are heart attacks of their superiors when they are in their mid-fortees, not rarely with lethal ending, divorces, residential school for kids, working days with ten hours and more as daily experience, black berry availability 24 hours seven days a week, including holidays.
What for? – Money, power, prestige.
Money, power, and prestige [...]
Is Your Strategy Ready to Work Out?
December 20, 2011, by
Stephan Polomski in
Leadership,
Management The end of the year is near and management teams and their business units meet in order to outline next year´s and years´ planning and strategy. It is the season of performance reviews and soon of bonus calculating. It is the time to check lessons learned and if ambitions have been achieved. Annual reports sum [...]
Characteristics of Caring Leadership
May 24, 2011, by
Michael Dorn in
Human Resources,
Leadership In my opinion CL does not correspond to the known categorizations of management styles as for example ´authoritarian´ or ´cooperative´. No matter which of those categories a leader belongs to, he (using the masculin form for this text because of readability) might be a caring or not-so-caring leader. As an example the authoritarian manager can [...]
Learning New Aspects Of Caring Leadership
December 1, 2010, by
David Pilarek in
Leadership,
Management Over a year ago, when I wrote my first guest blog, I defined caring leadership as „always keeping your commitments“. I tried to illustrate how one can practice this everyday both at work and in one’s private life. That still holds true, I believe. Nevertheless, I would like to suggest three additional aspects of or criteria [...]
Experiencing Change Positively
November 21, 2010, by
Stephan Polomski in
Human Resources,
Leadership,
Management For my work and approach how to deal with change as a manager and head of human resources I found a philosophy of five genuine principles. These principles are my personal working charter. They reflect how to make change a positive experience for employees and all other stakeholders, apart from demands for a tool kit [...]
Implementing Gender Diversity
October 4, 2010, by
Stephan Polomski in
Human Resources,
Leadership,
Management It is gender diversity that becomes one of the most critical drivers for business success in the Western world. This world shaped by a structural framework of aging societies and a desperate lack of technical experts and leaders. Once Western – mostly male – managers understand the issue and make it a top priority on [...]
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 [...]