Introduction
Hi, I’m Marcus. I’m convinced that elephants can dance. And I have a dream. I have a dream that one day the economy will serve people and life and not vice versa. Since 2010 I have been writing in my blog about leadership, new work, agility, and many other topics.
2019
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Equal Dignity as Guiding Principle for Successful Transformations
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Aberrations of the Agile Transformation
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Independence in the Sense of the Whole
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Lean Leadership: Empowering Instead of Instructing
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Don’t scale agile – descale your organization!
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Pain of Adaptation in the Corporate World
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Manifesto for Human(e) Leadership: The Book
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Learning Serenity from the Stoics
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Sailing by Sight
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Drive Out Fear
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Management by Objective – Without Carrots and Sticks
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How Do You Feel About Your Time?
2018
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The Year That Was, 2018 – A Review in Words and Pictures
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Leading by Example
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The Trinity of Agile Leadership
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Dynamics of Effective Teams
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Agile as Concentrated Feed to Increase Employee Performance
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Three Common Misconceptions About User Stories
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The Five Principles of Lean Management as the Basis of the Agile Manifesto
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Purpose over Profit
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Leadership Under Change – Equality Not Subordination
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Impact over Input
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Three Surefire Ways to Kill Any Innovation
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Agility and Subsidiarity: Autonomous Decisions – Shared Responsibility
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Courage – The Underestimated Virtue
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Modern Court Jesters
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Agility and Separation of Powers. Or: What Is the Boss Actually Doing?
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10 Insights from Google’s Search for Good Leadership
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The Scrum Master: Three Popular Anti-Patterns
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The Prime Directive for Successful Retrospectives
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No More Elephant Carpaccio!
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Open-Plan Offices
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No Agility Without Trust
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A Brief History of Digitalization
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Jack Welch’s Three Advices on Leadership — Purpose, Generosity and Fun
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People over Processes
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Working Sustainably – Less Is More
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The Team, the Product and All the Rest
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The Customer-Vendor Anti-Pattern
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Agility and Alignment: Strategy as an Empty Sphere of Action
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The Dead End of the Agile Transformation
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Three Pillars of Sustainable Change: Empathy, Trust and Patience
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Leadership Is About Asking Questions Instead of Giving Answers
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Where’s the Library?
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Stop Starting, Start Finishing!
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How Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint and What to Learn from It
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Change Never Comes for Free
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The Benefits of Feature Teams