Author name: Matthias Kolbusa

Planungskomplexität

Mastering planning complexity: Effective strategies

Planning complexity – dealing with complexity Contrary to the widespread view that far-sighted action is a sign of wisdom and responsibility, I maintain that it is nothing more than an attempt to compensate for feelings of insecurity and to suggest that reality can be controlled. Plans are based on idealization and that is precisely the

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The balance of purpose, power and fear in implementation management

The three core elements of implementation management Successful implementation management is, among other things, a balancing act between purpose, power and fear. In German companies, I often notice that even experienced managers unperturbedly believe that they only have to explain the goal and content of the change to their team (meaning) and then things will

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Kräftespiel

Emotions in companies – project implementation

The power play of emotions – Emotions in companies Emotions are the decisive factor in the implementation concept and especially in the implementation of strategies, changes and projects. Everyone knows that you can only really make progress with intrinsic motivation, passion and emotional conviction. And you are only motivated if you recognize a meaning in

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Effektive Teams

Effective team composition: the art of implementation staffing

The right implementation team Only a few of the individual interests are extremely important for the overall process. But only if you manage to turn these few – regardless of their status – into implementation heroes will you develop a dynamic that will really move the project forward. You will certainly very rarely experience the

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disziplin Blog

Building and learning Discipline: achieving success

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, especially in building high-performance cultures, it’s this: Structure + discipline = success. As a rule, there is no lack of clever concepts. On the contrary: too many of them are always produced, only to want far too much at once. This is why Kolbusa’s HERO principles and

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Implementation policy: How to bundle interests and overcome resistance

Implementation policy – regulating the interplay of forces By implementation policy, I mean the targeted interweaving of the individual interests of those involved in the sense of the objective to form a well-functioning overall political construct. This dimension should therefore also be dealt with intensively and not, as is unfortunately often the case, left to

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