a distinctive leadership culture

Ernst & Young Studie - Bärendienst für den Automobilstandort Deutschland

"Deutschland hat einer Studie zufolge seinen Platz als weltweit führender Standort der Autoindustrie behauptet. In Sachen Innovationskraft, Produktqualität und Produktivität sei die Bundesrepublik spitze..." beginnt eine Autoindustrie-Selbstbeweihräucherungsstudie erster Güte, von E&Y.

Dieses Ergebnis - und alle anderen! - ist leicht erklärbar: befragt wurden "307 europäische Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie, darunter 79 aus Deutschland. Von den befragten Firmen waren zwölf Prozent Autohersteller und 88 Prozent Zulieferer", ie. 25,73%(!) der Befragten kamen aus Deutschland! Mehr als ein Viertel!

Es handelt sich also weniger um eine Studie, sondern eher um den Versuch, Fakten für die politische Argumentation in Deutschland zu schaffen, im Kleide einer 'Studie'. Oder?

Wenigstens Tagesschau.de kratzt ein wenig an der Studie: "Dass die deutschen Firmen laut der Studie dabei als künftige Marktführer gesehen werden, ist angesichts der bisherigen Entwicklung überraschend. In den USA fährt bereits der Chevrolet Volt auf den Straßen. Auch in Japan werden Elektrofahrzeuge bereits serienmäßig hergestellt. Darin sehen die Manager offenbar keinen Nachteil für Deutschland." (ebd.)

Im Grunde geht es um 3 Bärendienste Themen:

Loriot-Spiegelcover oder Hier könnte Ihr Außenminister stehen [Iconic]

Spiegel - Klicke um "Außenminister Westerwelle: Es ist vorbei" zu lesen.

Charlene Li / Gary Hamel: What comes after hierarchy? [Video-Interview]

 

Around the World CEOs and Managers Breathe a Sigh of Relief on Steve Jobs' Resignation

CEOs and managers may respire. Their hardship is finally over. After Steve's resignation nobody - they hope - will compare them to Steve again.

They all hated to be compared to a phenomenon. They all hated to be confronted with expectations only a Steve Jobs could live up to.

And they had a great excuse: he was the only one, there was no other coming near to his achievements. Yes, he was a phenomenon, and they themselves were great managers. They could live with that.

I must disenthrall them all, it's even worse: they all could become a Steve Jobs, they all could innovate, they all could transcend markets, they all could build Informal Markets (as I call them), they all could introduce revolutionary business models, and realize them successfully. No excuses apply.

Steve Jobs: "The only way to do Great Work is to love what you do"

Via dpstyles.

Watch Steve's Stanford commencement speech, where this quote originates from. Get Ellen DeGeneres' speech as add-on.

Leaders, Listen Up: Building a 21st Century Economy

"... To build an economy that not only welcomes, but seeks to invent the new. An economy that welcomes the weird. An economy that sees risk not as a liability but as an asset that yields a more valuable return than just cash." ...

"embracing it’s softer principles of innovation, risk, learning and celebration of the weird can lay the foundation for 21st century economies to emerge…."

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"As I write this, Apple has passed Exxon to become the most valuable company in the world.

The contrast of 20th vs. 21st century economies couldn’t be starker. On one hand you have Apple reinventing every industry it touches, with $75 billion dollars of cash in the bank and building a spaceship in Cupertino and on the other you have belching exhaust, depleting resources and government subsidies."

Via Bryce.

It's Lonely at the Top of the Ivory Tower!

It's lonely at the top? It's the price you have to pay? NO.

It's just lonely at the top, if you do something wrong. If you do not care, if you don't trust people, if you don't embrace people.

If you don't love people. If you don't want to be a role model, inspire people, and enthuse them.

If you don't want to learm from people, don't want to talk with them, don't want to grow together with them.

How the hell did you reach the top?

Capitalism Wants Isolated Consumers [Quote]

"Capitalism tells us that the self is all-important, because it wants us to be isolated consumers, each making her or her own decisions, without being accountable to one another.

Our educational system teaches self-sufficiency and independence, not community and interdependence.

Political leaders want us as individual voters who can be reached one at a time by means of the mass media and the Internet.

The health industry treats us all as patients, that is, people who wait ‘patient-ly’ in isolation to be treated by the medical system.

Even organised religion, which purports to be the most communal and relational of all human endeavours, really wants us to have a private, personal experience of God."

Ed Chambers, Industrial Areas Foundation

Via ellephanta.

But social media, the web, digitalism, and mobility teach us that consumers will never be isolated again.

Will that be the end of capitalism as we know it?
Or will capitalism end the web as we know it?

The Busy-ness Delusion

Feeling busy? Feeling in charge? Feeling needed? Feeling stressed? Feeling irreplaceable?
Because you are doing such a great job?

Nah, think again. Does it make sense to always be busy? Does it make sense to stay in the office till everybody else has left? Just to get the bonus, the appreciation, the backslapping?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to outgrow yourself on a qualitative level? Instead of having just one answer to more work - namely do more hours?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to concentrate on the relevant? Instead of hiding behind the redundant?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to create and innovate, to break the rules of the game, the market, the business?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to become a role model? To think about and do the right things? To inspire others to question business, too?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to stop making sense?

"Do Things with Passion ..." [Quote]

Via zeroing.

The Three Levels of Happiness

Via gloryszabo.