February 19, 2020
Agile is Dead End for many wrong implementations
Published by Chris Kruppa on February 19, 2020

Agile is dead? What is actually an agile organization?

A spectre is haunting the business world – the spectre of agility. Inspired by the opening sentence of Karl Marx – “The Communist Manifesto” Warning: The […]
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March 13, 2019
External Self-Concept is important in business teams
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 13, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2.1: Motivation – the external self-concept

As we discussed in the prior article, Motivation can have many faces. In order to motivate our people it is not enough to tell people to […]
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March 4, 2019
Extrinsic Motivation might be less effective as intrinsic
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 4, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2: Swamped by different motivations

Within my engagements on supporting teams and management, people often ask me the same questions: How can I motivate my team? How can I engage them […]
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February 15, 2019
Cooperation in modern world is more compllex
Published by Chris Kruppa on February 15, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 1: Making sense of today’s world

In the last article I described how managers are overwhelmed with the situation in today’s complex environment and described three different swamps and how this image […]
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January 20, 2019
Overwhelmed Managers feel like being in a swamp
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 20, 2019

Being Swamped – Challenges of Organizations in 21st century

In the last year I organized a course on Management in 21st century. I started the course with showing a similar picture as the one above. […]
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January 10, 2019
Teamwork
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 10, 2019

Better management with less managers

We are all familiar with managing teams, which did not live up to their potential. We believed, that they are not motivated and they did not […]
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December 19, 2017
Focus on Outcome
Published by Chris Kruppa on December 19, 2017

Prioritisation – where to start

How can I give a good prioritisation to get everything done? I wish, the day would have more than 24 hours. This is my third all-nighter […]
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October 31, 2017
Organisational strcutures are the foundations for agile practices
Published by Chris Kruppa on October 31, 2017

The success of an adaptive organisation lies in it’s organisational structures

The premise of Agile frameworks is promising. “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”. I love to […]
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