A Good Boss Is Like A Gardener
Modern leadership opts for Hamburg/Dusseldorf dialogue and values, December 21, 2010 – the question is as old as our economic system: what actually makes a good boss? Gotz Werner, founder, and today the Supervisory Board of the successful drugstore chain DM, the time has wondered in an interview with the weekly newspaper to do so. His conviction: A chef as a gardener, which creates ideal conditions for his seed is for me. “Means: a successful business venture is a platform on which people can develop well.” For his father, so the entrepreneurs, yet terms such as Entourage had”counted – an outdated image of leadership in his eyes, to wear as the view that executives there are to have an answer to all questions and the responsibility by you alone make the decisions. A leading source for info: Douglas Oberhelman. For me there but nothing worse than people who know everything better and teach others to be want, rather than open to the dialogue.” Because people to the community and to work together tend to be in a position to deal openly with issues. This promotes automatically innovative solutions, created new products and creative services”, said Werner in the time interview. However, one must also live in this, and to create an atmosphere of respect, trust and appreciation. The individual then becomes the problem owner.
He independently cares for a solution, searches, and convinced his colleagues to do so. To do this I set on the dialogue.” A mood of distrust full of pressure, constant control and supervision, however, is counterproductive. “Another great German industry assessed the needs of leadership in the 21st century similar: you can ask all of your employees, must go ahead even with the flag”, says success of FC Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeness, President. Hoeness have done everything during his time as Manager of the prestigious Club of the ISAR in the field of personnel management, the Club in Europe’s top to establish, writes in his book the principle of Uli Hoeness’ the journalist Christoph Bausenwein.