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Leadership skills are not just for CEOs but for every professional and knowledge worker

5 reasons why you should start to build your leadership skills today

Leadership skills are somehow seen as magic skills only relevant for a executives, senior managers and CEOs. We argue that this understanding of leadership is outdated and that leadership skills are...

Leadership, Leadership effectiveness, Leadership style

Management demystified: why not only managers manage

When you hear the word “management”, which pictures come to mind? It is likely the response is a middle-aged male in a corporate setting who makes decisions about what others are meant to do. However...

Management development, Management Trends, Organizational culture, VUCA

Embracing diversity productively in the workplace. What does the evidence tell us?

Embracing diversity productively in the workplace: What does scientific evidence tell us?

Diversity, and the need to productively diversify, presents ongoing dilemmas in the professional world. Numerous fields that were previously relatively homogenous are slowly achieving greater parity...

Diversity and Inclusion, Diversity Intelligence, Human capital, Innovation, Team Building, Collaboration Quotient

Organizations consist of decision according to social systems theory

Social systems theory for management practitioners: Organizations as network of decisions

In line with our critical thinking approach here at CQ Net, in this blog post we want to look beyond the traditional management understanding of organizations as machines. Sociology has a long...

Decision making, Social Science, Systems approach

Agility is about gaining a competitive advantage through a superior decision-making process

To be agile or not: When to increase organizational agility in your team or organization

Organizational agility is one of the key trends in almost all areas of management. Most of the available knowledge about when to apply an agile approach and how to apply it is related to product...

Agility, OODA-loop, VUCA

Resilient employees bounce back faster from setbacks

Resisting the storm: Building employee resilience with evidence-based practices

Life as a working professional involves taking risks, enduring frustrations, and recuperating in the face of failure. However, not all people are born with a high level of emotional resilience, nor...

Psychological safety, Resilience

Shifting the paradigm: Management skills for everyone!

Shifting paradigms: Why management skills for everyone are crucial

The world is changing - in business and beyond. Management skills sound like they may only be useful for executives and CEOs, but in fact, they have turned out to be far more fundamental and...

Start-up versus corporation: How to combine efficiency and creativity with contextual ambidexterity in organizations.

Concepts like efficiency vs. creativity or stability vs. flexibility are deeply engraved in our vocabulary as opposites rather than synergies. A similar contrast is the distinction between startups...

Ambidextrous organization, Behavioral complexity, Critical thinking, Employee engagement, Human capital, Work climate, Collaboration

Resiliente Menschen können besser mit Rückschlägen umgehen

Firm as a rock: Assessing, harnessing, and building resilience in an organization

One of the current “trends” in the science of management is examining employees’ resilience. Like “emotional intelligence” and “grit” before it, “resilience” has become a desirable and much-discussed...

Burnout, Employee engagement, Evidence-based Management, Resilience

Stakeholder management is an important tool to successfully manage complex projects

Dr. Sumbul Tahir

Stakeholder management in complex projects: What it is, why it matters and how to do it

In this CQ Dossier we have a look at different approaches to stakeholder management in complex projects. We provide key take-aways based in a review of theory and research in the area of stakeholder management theory and practice.

Stakeholder, Stakeholder management

Studien stärken die Vermutung, dass Teamentwicklung mit Crew Resource Management einen positiven Effekt auf die Leistungsfähigkeit von Teams hat

The rise of Crew Resource Management (CRM): Why CRM should be re-adapted as a framework for non-technical skills development in management teams

The aviation industry has reached an unprecedented safety level. This is an outstanding achievement taking into consideration that global air traffic is on the rise and every new aircraft becomes...

Crew Resource Management (CRM), Decision making, High Performance Team, High Reliability Organization (HRO), Safety procedures

The coronavirus pandemic is a global threat and requires robust crisis leadership responses

Leadership in times of the coronavirus crisis: A management guide for professionals

Since its first discovery in December 2019 in Hubai, China, the new Coronavirus - now called SARS-CoV-2 - has spread out across the globe. The still increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 (the...

Coronavirus, Crisis management

A beautiful mind: The challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting the businesses and societies in a manner that is unseen before. By the end of the decade, there will likely be no field untouched by this technological...

Artificial Intelligence, Decision making, Digital age

Dr. Sumbul Tahir

Organizational climate: What it is and how to shape it

Organizational climate is a barometer for judging the employee sentiment about their employers’ policies and practices. By measuring the readings of this barometer, organizational policies and practices can be made more aligned with organizational goals and strategy.

organizational climate, Organizational culture

Every professional needs to understand the concept of psychological safety and apply its principles to become more effective

Dr. Sumbul Tahir

Psychological safety: What it is, why it matters and how to improve it

Every professional needs to understand the concept of psychological safety and apply its principles to become more effective. This CQ Dossier provides you the required knowledge to do that.

Psychological safety, High Performance Team

What innovations do exist in the area of performance management and what is there benefit from an evidence-based management point of view?

The future of performance management: A critical review of current practices and innovations

Recently, there has been a trend among top-performing companies to reinvent their performance management systems. Organizations are discarding the traditional practice of evaluation through a system...

Employee engagement, Employee selection, Evidence-based Management, Goal Agreement, Goal setting theory, Performance appraisal, Performance management

The future of work won't be either human intelligence or artificial intelligence but a combination of both called hybrid intelligence

The future of work is Hybrid Intelligence: How Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence support each other

Hybrid Intelligence combines human and Artificial Intelligence to collectively achieve superior results and learn from each other. It will be a dominant workplace model in the digital age. Because...

Artificial Intelligence

In order to be successful as a manager, you need a specific set of skills. Industrial-organizational research provides valuable insights into how these skills look like and how you can acquire them.

Dr. Devon Price

Growing into Your Position: Professional Skills Managers Should Develop on the Job

If you’ve risen to a management position, you have already demonstrated the ability to be flexible, assertive, and growth-minded. This CQ Dossier will provide you with an initial guide of skills you need as a manager and how you can acquire them.

Management development, Emotional intelligence, Scientific thinking, Management communication

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