Wolfgang Nickles

There is a new way of interaction between human beings – especially between bosses and their team.

Isabella Heidinger, Head of HR

Leading is a challenging task that you simply cannot do casually.

Alena Klinz

We get quite a lot of confidence from our CEO.

Manuela Franz

It is wonderful to see how the self-confidence visibly grows within our apprentices.

Inge Bramer

We wanted to say “thank you” to our management team … because it is very special, what is happening here.

Götz W. Werner, Founder

The most important customers are our employees.

We would never have been able to record our music in such a quality without this special working-environment.

Uwe Urbschat

Our leaders are allowed to take a lot of time to reflect the own leadership-behaviour.

Gunther Olesch, CEO

Since we put the employees in the middle of our strategy, our revenue increased by 60 percent.

Heribert Gathof, Geschäftsführer

We love lateral-thinking. Only the we can step our of our current patterns.

Martin Grosser

In the middle of the crisis, the transparency and the close contact of the management team helped us to feel secure.

Jeanette Dedow

In the old days, the strategy was developed by the headquarter. Now, all of us are asked to co-create.

Axel Tripkewitz, CEO

Our employees decide by themselves the amount of the bonus-payments.

Lars Oltmanns

Appreciation isn`t anything that is only provided by the boss to the team, but it happens in all directions.

Isabella Heidinger, Head of HR

HR departments should refrain from ‘cooking’ up a concept behind closed doors and then presenting it to the employees.

Viktoria Schwab

In any case, you receive a counter question first. I am learning a lot here about myself.

COMPANIES ON THEIR WAY

Here we will show you different approaches to how firms and organizations overcame challenges. These are approaches we particularly like; approaches which, intentionally or unintentionally, initiated a cultural change.

Whenever possible, we will explicitly name those companies and organizations. In the first phase of this writing, we realized that it is easier and, best of all, closer to life for the reader if we name companies, employees, and their products. At times, we are taking a risk and it might look like we are promoting one or the other company. We take this risk because, for us, it is more important that the reader understands and memorizes the content.

Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to openly express that none of the designated companies had—or was even allowed—to pay for our initiative in any way or form.

Companies for Germany

“For those for whom education is too expensive, you want to try stupidity.” With this statement, Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, BASF former chief executive, provoked a commentary in an article …

The work council as an instrument to solutions

Work councils are struggling with a bad reputation, especially on the part of employers. In reality, though, the workers’ representatives could be a significant, innovative multiplier

A bottom-up process

The offer for the employees of the Police Department Brunswick is probably a ray of hope in the civil service. A small, visionary team developed a holistic program with model character.

The workforce establishes its own structure

Over the Christmas holidays, he decided that the entire workforce should be involved in finding a satisfactory solution to this salary imbalance.

Fathers awareness

Imagine you were an Equal Opportunity Officer in a company whose workforce was 75 percent male. Who do you care for more: men or women?

A bakery that endows meaning

In the organic bakery Märkisches Landbrot (Brandenburger Country Bread), in Berlin-Neukölln, profit is not at the center. “Our boss is the bread …

Special spaces of experience

The idea of creating an office so playful and multifaceted that there is always something new to be discovered is bearing fruit. The processing time of orders and projects has already reduced by more than 20 percent.