What are we talking about when we talk about modern management? Are we discussing the changing nature of the workplace? Are we talking about the breakdown of traditional roles? Are we remarking upon the very nature of corporate and executive leadership itself? Click on ALLOW button to have access to more exciting career news!
How would you like a brand new company car? No? Then what about a membership at a premium gym? Or maybe you’d rather have a fully funded pension plan? Think carefully – which of these offers would you most like to receive from your employer? More and more companies are using employee benefits to attract…
“You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and still be in business tomorrow.” This quote lays out the challenges that an organization and personnel in management jobs today face. The new corporate mantra for most organizations specially post the 2008 recession is “innovation”. Everyone wants to provide new services, cutting edge technology, niche services that differs from others existing in the market. But what is the workplace doing to encourage innovation? How are organizations laying the groundwork for innovative thinking?
Reigniting the creativity spark in management jobs is not an esoteric or academic topic. Think of a scenario where instead of doing your usual job to the best of your ability you are asked to test the way things are done, innovate on new ideas or new method of doing processes, challenging the status-quo as it is at present. Does this seem like an ideal scenario to you – of working at a challenging but interesting job that makes you feel as an creatively and professionally fulfilled.
Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. And while we all know the importance of it, how to foster creativity at work still remains a question for most senior managers.
Austrian-American scientist Schumpeter coined the phrase ‘Neue kombinationen’ or ‘new combinations’. This concept was also in some sense dealt with by Einstein as – combinationatorial play and Steve Jobs as- ‘connecting the dots’. The reason, we mention this today, is that the concept has been revived a little by Thnk- the school for ‘Creative Leadership’ as a tool for senior managers and candidates in executive positions.
Sometimes data leads to interesting insights, and we wanted to get our heads around this one quite a bit. Experteer analytics data suggests that Zalando’s management churn seems to be much higher than the ‘Internet’ industry level in Deutschland. Here are some rather stark data points we discovered: 1 in every 4 senior professionals in…
