Laszlo Kövari

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

Admittedly this is somewhat provocative, but perhaps not that far-fetched.

Considering that over 90% of companies are mediocre, it doesn’t make much sense to even raise the question of strategy. Companies are mediocre because they have no leadership who could provide a concept that may serve as the foundation of any kind of strategy, so they are, without exception playing catch-up. Their „leaders” are staring in the rear-view mirror and at various indicators while stepping ever heavier on the gas pedal. All the while there is only one song coming from the speakers at maximum volume: faster!

Written by: Laszlo Kovari

Yes, yes: we are irrational: we know this, but hey: this is life.

There is ALWAYS A VERY GOOD REASON behind 200 pairs of shoes in the wardrobe, behind hiring 53 highly compliant kids from Deloitte without life or any other experience but PP skills to “transform” our nation wide retail banking operation,

by: Laszlo Kovari

You can start with any of these today! Start with your direct reports and let it pass through the entire organization.

No analysis required, just commitment, communications and GUTS (CC&G)! I won’t get into technicalities, you know how to do what you need to do!

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

Organizational excellence is based on best practices, best practices consist of processes, and processes must be sustained. Three types of grave consequences may originate from this simple premise:

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

Airbnb, one of the hottest startups coming out from the Silicon Valley, faced a very simple leadership challenge recently: one of their customers’ home was destroyed and her identity was stolen by another airbnb customer. She blogged about it and it went viral.

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

Depending on how much press we read, we can come across  headlines that follow this pattern on a weakly basis:

XYZ has left his post after only x months due to differences of opinion on the strategy of the organization.

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

It would be flat out crazy to discredit the originals just because there are much more copycats; yet this happens all the time: think about the startup scene, the investment scene (vc, pe), management theories and practices or if we want to go a little deeper, about philosophies and arts.

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

It’s a cliche that organizations and people resist change. This cliche is nicely embedded into change management initiatives to “manage resistance” – although way less frequently than you may think. When it happens it is done politely, in a civilized way, usually by cheerful facilitators.

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

“Something can be rejected competently only by the one who is at the same time able to defend it perfectly. And something can be advocated competently only by the one who is able to reject it perfectly.” – Andras Laszlo.

Guest Post by: Laszlo Kövari

The pervasive view on leadership is situational (a better but uglier word would be positional), thus completely false.