This week I had an interesting conversation with a senior executive about a situation many leaders silently struggle with: what happens when layoffs become necessary, but managers categorically refuse to carry them out? Layoffs are an emotionally charged topic—especially today. It’s easy to argue that some recent workforce reductions were avoidable, or that people should …
If we search the internet for the word „feedback” we find that feedback is a process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future. As part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop, the event is said to “feedback” into itself. …
While I was in Thailand I saw lots of young people with huge backpacks, set off to see the world. I had seen them before in different countries in Europe, but they were not so many and not so far from their homes. The first question that came into my head was how old were …