Der tägliche HBR- Newsletter ist ja immer wieder inspirierend. Etwa der folgende, frei nach dem Motto: „Manche Dinge kommen einfach aus dem Herzen … und andere?“

Ich finde Authentizität viel überzeugender als abgeschleckte, tolle Präsentationen und Pläne – aber lesen Sie selbst:

„Too often the strategy creation process produces options that aren’t any more interesting or creative than the current strategy. If you find yourself agonizing over which of your carefully crafted strategic options is the right one, chances are you are taking the strategic planning process too seriously.

Give up being right and sensible. Instead, tell a story about the future. Make it aspirational and envision your organization in a happy and successful place. Have everyone participating in the process tell their own story, and together you’ll have created a list of options. Then start the real work of strategy creation: ask yourselves, for these stories to come true, what would have to happen?“

(c) HBR

Es gibt doch Gender – Differenzen 😉 … lesen Sie selbst:

„Men are 35% faster and 2.4% more accurate than women at parking cars overall, with the differences being even more pronounced in parallel parking, according to research led by Claudia C. Wolf and Sebastian Ocklenburg of Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.

Men’s superior ability at identifying rotated images of three-dimensional objects is presumably important in parking, the researchers say.

Quelle:  How we Drive “

Politisch korrekt wie ich bin halte ich fest, dass ich meine derartigen Beobachtungen bislang eher in der Bereich der Vorurteile geschoben habe …