Leading without Hierarchy - the End of a Success Story

Incl. Bonus – Networked teams & agile leadership role, psychology & no fear of change management, new authority & relevance for executives

Simone Janson

• Publisher: Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9783965961579
• Edition: 7
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Financial Risk Management
• Index: Business

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Because our perception of leadership must and will change significantly in the coming years: The hierarchical top-down model still dominates our thinking and acting too much. But what was highly efficient yesterday is not effective in the complex, dynamic VUCA world of tomorrow, because bosses as individual decision-makers no longer have the knowledge to make the right decisions. In the future, successful companies will have to be flexible, agile and networked - keyword holocratic leadership. Only then will they be able to master the challenges of digitization and efficiently analyze and process the immense data streams. The leadership competence in tomorrow's companies will therefore be more likely to lie in networked teams than in individuals and will be subject to constant change.

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Authors Overview

Anne M. Schüller

Anne M. Schüller is a management thinker, keynote speaker, business coach and multiple award-winning bestselling author. She has repeatedly been named Top Voice by Business Network LinkedIn.

The graduate in business administration is considered a leading expert in touchpoint management and customer-focused corporate management. She is one of the most sought after speakers in the German-speaking world. For more than 20, she has held leadership roles in sales and marketing for several international service companies, and has received several awards. 2015 was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the German Speakers Association (GSA) for her life's work.

At congresses, conferences, events and corporate events, it holds top-class, rousing and practical keynote and impulse lectures on the topics of corporate organization and leadership in the Next Economy, touchpoint management, customer loyalty and referral marketing. She also conducts power workshops on these topics. Your Touchpoint Institute trains certified Touchpoint Managers. Its customers include the elite of the German, Austrian and Swiss economies.

Managementbuch.de is one of the most important management thinkers. Her bestseller “Touch.Point.Sieg.” is the Trainer Book of the Year 2016. Her bestseller “The Touchpoint Company” was chosen as the Management Book of the Year 2014. Her bestseller “Touchpoints” is the Mittelstandsbuch des Jahres 2012. When it comes to customers, she is one of the most cited experts.

Website:

http://www.anneschueller.de and http://www.touchpoint-management.de

Elmar Lesch

Elmar Lesch is a business coach, management and sales trainer.

Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur (FH), is an internationally certified management consultant BDU / CMC as well as a successful management and sales trainer, business coach, project manager and lecturer for project management. Owner of the consulting firm for sales & marketing LESCH CONSULT and shareholder of the UMSATZMEISTER Methods Institute for Potential Development.

Ralf Koschinski

Ralf Koschinski is Dipl.-Kaufmann, Coach & Mittelstandsberater.

He is a certified management & business coach and SME consultant. Owner of VERTRIEBSMEISTER®, Institute for Enterprise Development, and shareholder of the UMSATZMEISTER Methods Institute for Potential Development.

The technical business economist (IHK) and business graduate (FH) developed the ratiomotion® method. As a multi-certified trainer (including NLP Practitioner, INSIGHTS MDI® DISG consultant), the holder of the quality certificate of the Q-Pool 100 business trainers supports companies with technical and design-oriented products in realizing their sales goals. Most recently, he combined his know-how in sales and as a trained professional musician (trumpet, guitar, vocals) in his book “Music is in Sales”.

Michael D. Watkins

Michael D. Watkins is Professor for Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD.

He leads the program Transition to Business Leadership (TBL).

Dr. Stefan Kaduk

Dr. Stefan Kaduk is a management researcher and bestselling author.

Kaduk studied Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and works at the Institute for Development of Sustainable Organizations at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and has together with the economist Dr. Dirk Osmetz and the Chair of International Management at the Bundeswehr University, Hans A. Wüthrich, initiated the pattern-breaker project. The goal is to develop and realize smarter ways of leadership in business.

Website:

http://www.musterbrecher.de/

Angela Dietz

Angela Dietz is the expert for healthy communication and leadership.

Dietz studied biology, sports and educational psychology. She is the founder of HUMAN SUCCESS - the consulting company for the development of a new cooperation. For more than twelve years, she has been advising well-known companies and educating managers, employees, teachers, physicians and private individuals on healthy communication and leadership based on non-violent communication.

Roswitha A. van der Markt

Roswitha A. van der Markt is a management consultant and executive coach for HP, Siemens or SAP.

van der Markt studied humanities in Munich, Amsterdam and Pretoria and has more than 25 years of international leadership experience, including as managing partner of the world's leading consulting firm Accenture. She holds an Executive MBA from Harvard University in cooperation with MIT's Sloan School of Management (Boston, Mass.). She is also Commercial Manager (Babson College) and winner of the German University Software Award.

Since 1998 Roswitha works van der Markt as executive consultant and coach for executives of the first and second level as well as author and business speaker. Its international customer and experience background includes companies such as Accenture, Siemens, Fujitsu, Infineon, HP, Oracle, SAP, Allianz, BT, GE, Telekom, as well as outstanding medium-sized companies. As an expert in Business Transformation, Change Management, Leadership and Human Performance, as well as Strategy and Organizational Development, she manages mandates in Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.

She also held teaching assignments at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, the Otto-Friedrichs-University, Bamberg, the Technical University, Dresden, the IE Business School, Madrid and was project coach of the IEWS (Institute of EastWest Studies) and the UNESCO for multi-national projects for the economic and democratic development of Eastern Europe.

She calls herself a digital baby boomer and has been working as a digital nomad for almost 20 years.

Website:

http: /rvandermarkt.com/

PD Dr. York Hagmayer

PD Dr. York Hagmayer is Academic Councilor at the University of Göttingen.

The Psychologist Dr. York Hagmayer has been studying decision-making issues at the University of Göttingen for many years. After working at the IBM Academy of Management and King's College in London, he is currently researching questions of medical-psychological decision-making at the Georg Elias Müller Institute for Psychology at the University of Göttingen.

Roland Jäger

Roland Jäger, known from the show Anne Will, is a business consultant, bestselling author and coach for executives.

The graduate in business administration worked for many years as a manager for a renowned private bank and in a major consulting firm. His main focus today is on leadership, communication, conflict management, change management and self-management.

Michael Hübler

Michael Hübler is a graduate teacher, coach and consultant.

Hübler, 1972 was born in Geislingen / Steige. After studying pedagogy and a leading position in a non-profit organization, he came to 2006, where he feels most comfortable: in the free market. The coach, coach and consultant works and lives together with his wife and two children in Fürth / Franconia. In addition to his book releases, he regularly writes blog articles. His main focus is on emotional competences, leadership and communication.

Website:

http://www.m-huebler.de/

Olaf Hinz

Olaf Hinz was the office manager of Peer Steinbrück, and today he is a leader in the field of challenging waters.

Olaf Hinz advises and coaches experienced executives and project managers who also want to manage effectively beyond tools and checklists. As a committed Hanseat, he helps his customers through challenging situations and supports them in fulfilling their tasks with maritime serenity. Before his independence, Olaf Hinz worked as an office manager for Peer Steinbrück, at that time Minister of Economic Affairs in Schleswig-Holstein and HR Manager / Project Finance Officer at LB Kiel. He publishes regularly on central aspects of his consultancy and has written several books.

Website:

http: /hinz-wirkt.de

Simone Janson

Simone Janson is a publisher, consultant and is one of the 20 most important German bloggers according to the Blogger Relevance Index and Wikipedia. According to DIE ZEIT, she is one of the most important bloggers on career, work and the world of work. In addition, she is a keynote speaker and advises companies such as Samsung, OTTO or Randstad in HR c...

Table of contents

• Imprint
• Introduction: How this book supports you
• Hierarchies in the change process thanks to Twitter & Co: like a bitter pill // By Simone Janson
• TALK | Specialist author Katharina Daniels about change processes in companies: “Managers have to become generalists and gardeners” // By Simone Janson
• Manage projects instead of managing: what makes successful project captains // By Olaf Hinz
• Employee motivation for managers: sense and nonsense of hierarchies // By Michael Hübler
• Optimal leadership: take all employees with you? // By Roland Jäger
• Concepts for Failure Risk and Wrong Decisions: The Illusion of Control // By PD Dr. York Hagmayer
• Agile leadership and the end of the hierarchy: trust wins // By Roswitha A. van der Markt
• Healthy Leading and Communicating: 5 Tips for Leadership Hierarchies // By Angela Dietz
• Innovation Future trends and new patterns of thinking: the power of organization // By Dr. Stefan Kaduk
• Donald Trump and the CEO syndrome: bosses do not want bad news // By Professor Dr. Michael Watkins
• Implement projects instead of failures: 6 SAU traps as the cause // By Elmar Lesch, Ralf Koschinski
• Organizational development and hierarchy: In 2 X 9 steps fit for the digital economy // By Anne M. Schüller
• Closing Remarks
• Authors Overview
• About the publisher Best of HR - Berufebilder.de®
• Notes on translation