Sven C. Voelpel

Sie möchten wissen, wie Sie, Ihre Chefs, Kollegen oder Mitarbeiter optimal für sich und Ihr Unternehmen oder Ihre Organisation arbeiten können? Warum dafür zum Beispiel Persönlichkeit, Selbstreflexion, Selbstvertrauen und Work-Life-Balance so wichtig sind? Was Zusammenarbeit, Kommunikation und gegenseitiges Vertrauen bedeuten? Und wie moderne Führung funktioniert - mit Zielen und Feedback, über Motivation, Charisma und Führungspsychologie, bis zu Mikropolitik und Machtfaktoren? Welche Führungsrollen es gibt, warum sie irgendwie alle wichtig und in welchen Situationen sie besonders relevant sind? Und wie Coopetition, Kreativität, Innovation, Balance und die gleichzeitige Konzentration auf die Gegenwart und die Zukunft zum Erfolg beitragen? Die meisten Bücher stellen das Thema zu einseitig dar, viele in der Praxis übliche Managementkonzepte und -methoden sind überholt. Wie alles wirklich funktioniert, beschreibt "Spielfeld Arbeitsplatz" - fundiert, auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung, unterhaltsam, praxisorientiert. Dabei nutzen die Autoren - Experten für Wirtschaftspsychologie und Führung, die auch mit Bundesligavereinen zusammenarbeiten - Analogien aus dem Fußball, die wunderbar deutlich machen, worauf es tatsächlich ankommt. Ergänzt wird der Inhalt durch inspirierende Statements von Personen aus der Wirtschaft, Vereinen und verschiedenen Organisationen. Und die praxisbewährten Tests helfen bei der Selbsteinschätzung, der Einschätzung von Führungskräften und der Organisationskultur. Mit Geleitworten von Roland Berger (Unternehmensberater) und Wilfried Porth (Daimler AG, VfB Stuttgart) und themenbezogenen Statements u.a. von Jens Bormann (buw), Stephanie Busch (Facelift), Skateboard-?Urgestein? Titus Dittmann, Peter Görlich (TSG Hoffenheim), Alexander Insam (KPMG), Eric Kearney (Universität Potsdam), Frank Kohl-Boas (Google), Frank Kuhlmann (TUI Cruises), Henning Lühr (Staatsrat, Bremen), Jan Mayer (Sportpsychologe), Daniel Neubauer (Zurich Insurance) und Michael Welling (Rot-Weiß Essen).

Managing the Aging Workforce is one of the crucial topics for many of the world?s enterprises. The increasing average age of populations does not only affect social systems, countries and communities, but also has a strong impact on the work of businesses and companies. The decline in demographic fitness will not only hit countries like the U.S., the Western European countries, or Japan, but also the upcoming societies in China or in the Eastern European countries. In many of these countries, during three or four decades the average age will grow from about 40 years now to about 50 years. Where experts are needed, this may result in an increase of the workforce's age of between 5 and 10 years in only one decade. For companies thus, a number of challenges arise that have to be overcome fast and continuously. The main topics in this field will be new strategies in leadership, new concepts in health management, new ways in knowledge management and learning, as well as new models how to drive ideas for diversity and innovation.On the one hand, enterprises therefore will have to invest in their aging employees for supporting their talents, helping them to learn and keeping them in the company. On the other, they will have to increase productivity, keep on searching for new products, and integrate experts from abroad. This has to be combined with new ways of strategies and HR management. This book presents an analysis of the present and upcoming situation, and an introduction into the strategic concepts enterprises will need to survive in aging societies.

Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the new knowledge-networked innovation economy requires a totally different strategic management mindset, approach and toolbox, and its major value-added is a new strategic management approach and toolbox for the innovation economy - a poised strategy approach. Designed for both managers and advanced business students, the book provides a unique combination of new management theory, selected managerial articles by prominent scholars such as Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, Sumantra Ghoshal, Quinn Mills, and Peter Senge, and a wide array of real-world case examples including GE, Shell, IBM, HP, BRL Hardy, P&G, Southwest Airlines and McGraw-Hill, within the dynamics of industries such as airlines, energy, telecommunications, wine & beverages, and computing. The authors illustrate powerful new strategic innovation concepts and tools, such as poised strategy for managing multiple business models, poised strategy scorecards (moving beyond the well-known balanced scorecard), the wheel of business model reinvention, and organizational rejuvenation methods. The book includes the concepts of: Poised Strategic Management, Organizational Rejuvenation, Business Models as Platform for Strategy, Poised Scorecards, Identifying Sources of Innovation in Business Ecosystems.