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No Mud, No Lotus – Thich Nhat Hanh – Day 12

By |2021-06-01T17:28:28+02:00December 15th, 2020|Resilience, Transformation, Transformation and Advent|

Wherever there is planing, there are shavings: every productive activity includes moments in which things are not going well or which appear simply unpleasant, annoying, dirty, complicated, threatening. To sweeten these moments with positive thinking ("It'll be fine!") Is just as harmful as denying or degrading "dirty work" out of misunderstood ambition: "I'm efficient, I don't make any chips" - "That's below my capacities, I don't make my hands dirty ".

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Connection vs. cruel Optimism – Day 9

By |2021-06-01T17:30:05+02:00December 9th, 2020|Resilience, Transformation and Advent|

The connection to my feelings makes me unique and gives me self-confidence - and it is essential to stay connected with others - not as the object of the power from others over my feelings, but as a self-responsible subject with intention (not belief, not the simple hope), to solve problems courageously (which does not exclude fear) together.

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Compassion vs. Selfishness – Day 8

By |2020-12-09T09:59:28+01:00December 8th, 2020|Transformation and Advent, Transformational Leadership|

With every decision we make as an entrepreneur, as a manager, we make ourselves "guilty" - we are pursuing a goal and the goal is without exception growth. This self-interest is not right or wrong per se, and certainly not morally reprehensible at all: We strive for added value that allows us to lead a good life. The question is, how do we define "added value" - and how we "lead a good life": If only short-term profit maximization on the balance sheet and the accumulation of sales and profits have priority for my individual standard of living as the currency for added value, then this does not correspond to my pleasure principle for entrepreneurship

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