Leadership Archives - Marcus Raitner

Trust is the Glue of Life

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:53:43 +0000

In the 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel led a series of studies at Stanford that have become known as the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Children between the ages of three…

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Marcus Raitner — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:55:11 +0000

In 2018, in the midst of the agile transformation of the BMW Group IT, we were deeply interested in the question of how leadership might look in an…

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On the Wise Use of Our Insultingly Short Lifespan

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:15:00 +0000

There is an absurdly wide gap between the human capacity to make many grand plans and the lifetime available to realize them. This brevity of life makes rigorous prioritization central to all time management and, at the same time, makes every choice painfully significant. Unfortunately, in our desperation, we tend to squeeze so much into our day until we are finally sufficiently overloaded to say no with a clear conscience.

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OKR, MbO, KPI – WTF?

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:52:37 +0000

Objectives & Key Results, or OKR for short, originated in the 1970s under Andy Grove at Intel, who described it in his book “High Output Management” (Grove, 1983).…

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The Art of Simplification

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:20:48 +0000

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away. This standard, crafted by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, suggests some potential for improvement in public administration and large corporations. But what is the reason that the rules are becoming more and more and the processes more and more complicated? Perhaps, in the end, it is simply due to our tendency to seek solutions by adding rather than solving the problem by omitting, as demonstrated in recent research.

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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:01:43 +0000

Quickly check the emails. Send a few chat messages on the side. The technical possibilities tempt us to condense our time more and more and rush through the workday. But is faster always better?

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Hybrid working: A matter of time, not location

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:25:54 +0000

Companies are currently grappling with the question of how much their employees should work in the office and how much home office or remote working should be allowed. After the experience of the last two years of the Corona pandemic, the desire to combine the best of home and office in hybrid forms of working is laudable. Still, it should not be reduced to the question of the possible and permitted place of work. In essence, it is more about flexibility in terms of time than location.

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How the Pandemic Disrupted the World of Work

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:04:51 +0000

Strokes of fate often cause people to pause and reflect on their own lives, followed by a reorientation. Due to the Corona pandemic, many employees are now asking themselves how they want to work in the future. Their answer is already emerging in the USA as the “Great Resignation.” Although this wave is flatter in Germany, it is still reason enough to think about the crucial role of leadership in the post-pandemic age.

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He Who Says A Does Not Have to Say B

Marcus Raitner — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:44:03 +0000

When reality contradicts our beliefs and worldviews, we have several ways to resolve this cognitive dissonance. Most people tend to creatively reinterpret reality to fit the experiences into their mental model picture. Yet, it is more helpful to use the discrepancies as a source of insight and adjust one's worldview, especially for leaders whose worldviews and beliefs affect many others.

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The Mechanisms of Fear

Marcus Raitner — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:57:07 +0000

Initially, the fear of Corona was supposed to unite the people in the joint fight against the pandemic. This fear is increasingly turning into hatred, agitation, and separation. It is time for us to confront this corrosive tendency with determination and unity.

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