Vertrauen

Vertrauen ist kein Spekulationswert, dessen Risiken abgewogen werden können. Vertrauen ist eine Haltung, die aufgebracht oder verweigert wird. Wer Menschen nicht vertraut, kann sie auch nicht führen.

(Martin Haase)

Salomos Weisheiten 14

Wer nur darauf aus ist, Böses zu tun, der ist bald als Lump verschrien. Wer Gemeines plant und sich nicht ermahnen lässt, macht sich schuldig; und wer für alles nur Spott übrig hat, zieht sich den Hass der Menschen zu.

The person who’s always cooking up some evil soon gets a reputation as prince of rogues. Fools incubate sin; cynics desecrate beauty.

(Salomo)

Der Zufall in der strategischen Planung

“Die Strategie besteht darin, als erstes und genau alle möglichen Eventualitäten zu berechnen und dann in den eigenen Berechnungen dem Zufall einen genauen, fast mathematischen Platz einzuräumen. In diesem Punkt darf man keine Fehler machen, denn sogar eine Dezimale mehr oder weniger kann alles über den Haufen werfen.”

(Napoleon I.)

The Ecology of Commerce

“In business as in science, the most important thing to know is what you don’t know. Admitting one’s ignorance can be a powerful inducement to caution. We do not know how long we can continue to create molecular-level toxic garbage that floats in the air, seeps into our water, lodges in the fat, targets our genes, and interacts with the biological evolution, before life as we know it is irrevocably altered. It may be happening now, it may happen far into the future. No one knows, but when we do, it may be too late.”

(Paul Hawken, in The Ecology of Commerce)

Communication and Understanding

“Once you see or understand something, you cannot conceive of what it was like not to have seen or understood it. You lose the ability to identify with those who don’t know….If you could remember what it was like not to know, you could begin to communicate in terms that might be understood more readily by someone who doesn’t know.”

(Richard Wurmen, Information Anxiety)

Adopt a Shared Vision

“My most important wish is that the global business community could adopt a shared vision for the next 10 to 20 years about what you want the world to look like, and then go about trying to create it in ways that actually enhance your business, but do so in other people as well.I think the factor about globalization that tends to be under-appreciated is, it will only work if we understand it genuinely means interdependence. It means interdependence, which means that none of us who are fortunate can any longer help ourselves unless we are prepared to help our neighbors. And we need a more unifying, more inclusive vision. Once you know where you’re going, it’s a lot easier to decide what steps to take to get there. If you don’t know where you’re going, you can work like crazy and you would be walking in the wrong direction.”

(William J Clinton, Former President of the USA.)

Four Warning Signs That Our Ego is Getting the Best Of Us

A managed ego is an important trait of the effective person. Authors David Marcum and Steven Smith state in their compelling book egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), that “surprising as it may sound, many people don’t have enough ego, and that leads to insecurity and apathy that paralyze cultures and leaders.” This is an important addition to our thinking about ego and worth examining in more depth. It does sound odd as no doubt, most of us have been told that ego is a bad thing. But an unbalanced ego—either overconfident or lacking in confidence—can trap people in bad thinking resulting in poor or damaging interactions with others.

“Egonomics” offers four warning signs that our ego is getting the best of us:

1. Being Comparative
   “When we’re comparative, we tend to either pit our strengths against another’s weaknesses, which may lead us to an exaggerated sense of confidence, or we compare our weaknesses to their strengths, which can cause negative self pressure.
2. Being Defensive
   “When we can’t ‘lose,’ we defend our positions as if we’re defending who we are, and the debate shifts from a we-centered battle of ideas to a me-centered war of wills.”
3. Showcasing Brilliance
   “The more we want or expect people to recognize, appreciate or be dazzled by how smart we are, the less they listen, even if we do have better ideas.”
4. Seeking Acceptance
   “When we equate acceptance or rejection of our ideas with acceptance or rejection of who we are, we ‘play it safe.’ We tend to swim with the current and find a slightly different way of saying what’s already been said as long as acceptance is the outcome. That not only makes us a bland follower, but an uninspiring leader.”

(David Marcum and Steven Smith)

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