What do you consider to be the critical strategic leadership skills that enable organisations to realise sustained success?
Introduction
In this assignment I will attempt to outline what I consider to be the critical strategic leadership skills using what notable people have written and also what I see from my own perspectives as both an experienced follower and an inexperienced leader (although I really do enjoy trying to be, and think I am learning to become, a (good) leader).
Win Win Situation
Win-Win-Situation
- Report on our Social Project.
Strategieworkshop der Mannheim Business School mit der Plan-AG Mannheim
Wer an der Mannheim Business School (MBS) ein Master-Studium absolviert, hat unter anderem ein „Social Project“ im Curriculum stehen. Und so nahm ein Viererteam im Herbst 2009 Kontakt mit Angela Müller von der Plan-Aktionsgruppe Mannheim auf. Der Deal: Ein gemeinsames Projekt, bei dem die Aktionsgruppe von den angehenden Führungskräften des International Business professionell gecoacht wird. Die Studierenden betrachten Erfahrungen, Wünsche und Potential der Aktionsgruppe und beweisen ihr Knowhow. Nach einigen Treffen stellten Kristina Weith/Deutschland, José Puche/Kolumbien, Salma Wang/China und Adrian Oest/Australien ihr Konzept vor: Einen eintägigen Strategieworkshop für die Aktionsgruppe.
Private Information
With Facebook under huge pressure from consumers and governments alike the thought of protecting private web based information is almost oxymoronic. As we continue to move at light speed further into the internet age we release more and more information to the optic fibres and routers, in 1's and 0's across the globe. The web is as close to a public medium as it gets.
I write here to somewhat stand on the side of Facebook and Google, although I too feel vulnerable to personal information theft. As a fan of social media and an active social media user I am well aware of the risks. I have become more comfortable with this risk simply because I think it would be naive to think that my personal information could not be dragged up from a server other than Facebook's.
I write here to somewhat stand on the side of Facebook and Google, although I too feel vulnerable to personal information theft. As a fan of social media and an active social media user I am well aware of the risks. I have become more comfortable with this risk simply because I think it would be naive to think that my personal information could not be dragged up from a server other than Facebook's.
HHL Soccer
The business school was invited to a soccer tournament in Leipzig to compete against other European business schools. We left after a very intense M&A exam and a very long information overload week. The bus ride was very salubrious drawing much interest from cars overtaking us on the autobahn.
Gründer-Gespräche
The Mannheimer Gründer-Gespräche (Entrepreneurial Founders get-together) is run as part of the Institut for Mittelstandforschung (Institute for research into small to medium size companies) under Prof Woywode, our Strategic Management Professor.
Enrique and I attended the evening near Mannheim to get a feel of the entrepreneur community in the area. These events are relatively new but provide a great opportunity for students, founders and business people to get together and hear each others stories. Also in attendance were a few VC's, Professors and researchers.
Enrique and I attended the evening near Mannheim to get a feel of the entrepreneur community in the area. These events are relatively new but provide a great opportunity for students, founders and business people to get together and hear each others stories. Also in attendance were a few VC's, Professors and researchers.
Bionade - German Success Story
Bionade is a German success story. I went along to the www.thinc.de presentation this evening to get further insights into the Entrepreneur industry in Germany. The first thing to note was that the lecture hall was jam packed. Standing room only at the back.
Peter Kowalsky is the founder of Bionade. He is a brew-master and worked with his family and more specifically his brother and mother as a brewer. Over 10 years they experimented, alongside normal beer production, with an organically brewed alcohol free lemonade. Why brewed? To create the bubbles without using chemicals. The idea was to brew it naturally, like beer, using micro-organism to get the bubbles.
Peter Kowalsky is the founder of Bionade. He is a brew-master and worked with his family and more specifically his brother and mother as a brewer. Over 10 years they experimented, alongside normal beer production, with an organically brewed alcohol free lemonade. Why brewed? To create the bubbles without using chemicals. The idea was to brew it naturally, like beer, using micro-organism to get the bubbles.
VC / Start Up Activities - Germany
Start Ups / Entrepreneurs / VC and other interesting things for us to look at while at Mannheim Business School:
Mannheim Business School - Institute for SME's
http://www.entrepreneur-guide.de/
Venture Capital Summit for Students in Feb 2010
http://munichventuresummit.megabyet.net/
Social Media to the extreme:
http://pleaserobme.com/
Other websites:
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/
http://www.vc-magazin.de/
http://www.gruenderszene.de/
www.nexxt-change.org
Would love more insight into the German / Euro market...
Mannheim Business School - Institute for SME's
http://www.entrepreneur-guide.de/
Venture Capital Summit for Students in Feb 2010
http://munichventuresummit.megabyet.net/
Social Media to the extreme:
http://pleaserobme.com/
Other websites:
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/
http://www.vc-magazin.de/
http://www.gruenderszene.de/
www.nexxt-change.org
Would love more insight into the German / Euro market...
MBS Stammtisch - It's happening!
You are invited to the Mannheim Business School Stammtisch evening:
The Inaugural MBS Stammtisch - 5th March 2010 @ 18:30 at Novus (M4,1)
Stay for one drink, or many. Stay to meet one person or many. We invite you nonetheless to take the opportunity to meet new people, explore other cultures, meet other students from the Full Time MBA, the EMBA, the EMAT across all year levels.
After many meetings and feedback from you all (see attached for a summary), we would like to kick off a monthly networking event for students, alumni and friends of the Mannheim Business School.
SA State Championships - AUBC win Mens' Eight!
SA Rowing First Grade State Titles from A.M. Ramsay International course West Lakes, 20/02/2010.
AUBC win Mens' Eight at South Australian State Championships.
Results for the rest of the regatta - Phil Mangelsdorf
AUBC win Mens' Eight at South Australian State Championships.
And it was the Adelaide Uni mens eight who won the 117th and last race of the weekend on Sunday and the state title in the mens eights from their arch rivals and last years winners, the Adelaide club.
The two rivals were level after 500 metres of racing but then the Adelaide Uni crew, stroked by Mathew Bolt, settled on a rock solid 35 strokes per minute and took the lead over Adelaide who were always rating two or more strokes higher and looked short in their stroke making as they tried everything to keep up with the speed of the Adelaide Uni crew.
Adelaide Uni put on a finishing burst towards the end of the race but it was hardly needed as they crossed the finish line 7.29 seconds in front of Adelaide with the St Peters College crew 8.67 behind third and Prince Alfred College fourth.
The Adelaide Uni crew was again successfully coached by Michael Jeffries and contained several of the men who won the Australian Universities title last year and for this race was further strengthened by the inclusion of the experienced Australian representative Bolt and Olympian Chris Morgan.
Results for the rest of the regatta - Phil Mangelsdorf
RFID / Barcodes Do we need them?
Machine vision is now so powerful it can detect slight changes in skin movement (See video on the graphics behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ted.com for ideas) under many light conditions. In the case of warehouse and supermarket inventory/POS management systems it would seem that the next step forward is to remove RFID and barcodes altogether and replace the readers with machine vision. Training machines to read objects, to recognise certain logos, colours and shapes is relatively simple technology. As long as the features are distinctive and all objects are placed within view of the camera they can be 'read'. There would be no need to scan anything physically just simply put the items along a conveyor and let the machine do the scanning.
Clearly there are already sunk costs in infrastructure at warehouses and supermarkets but over time the current systems will need to be upgraded in any case. Marks and Spencer, Ikea and others are already experimenting with self serve cashiers. Machine vision could be the next generation.
Clearly there are already sunk costs in infrastructure at warehouses and supermarkets but over time the current systems will need to be upgraded in any case. Marks and Spencer, Ikea and others are already experimenting with self serve cashiers. Machine vision could be the next generation.
Mannheim One School Stammtisch Proposal
“One School” Update:
8th February 2010
A number of us from the Mannheim Business School met on Friday at Novus to further discussions and keep this project moving. Included were program management, representatives from the EMAT and Fulltime MBA as well as Alumni from the EMBA.
Firstly, thanks to those who came along. It was a most enjoyable evening meeting you all and to get feedback and develop ideas on how to go forward bringing the school together.
Key discussion points and resolutions were:
8th February 2010
A number of us from the Mannheim Business School met on Friday at Novus to further discussions and keep this project moving. Included were program management, representatives from the EMAT and Fulltime MBA as well as Alumni from the EMBA.
Firstly, thanks to those who came along. It was a most enjoyable evening meeting you all and to get feedback and develop ideas on how to go forward bringing the school together.
Key discussion points and resolutions were:
Infosys Company Presentation
Aditya Nath Jha, Head of Global Branding and Corporate Marketing at Infosys presented on the 2nd of February. I took notes, luckily, because it was one of the best company presentations we have been seen at the Mannheim Business School this year.
We never know what we will get at these presentations. Sometimes the speaker simply tells us how good their company is, sometimes they don't even mention the company and simply give us a presentation to somehow inspire us to join the company. This one from Infosys was somewhere in between. Unfortunately for many of us who are interested, they are looking for experienced German nationals to give them a direct contact with the industry here. They are expanding rapidly in Germany currently. Due to their employee demographic being 96% Indian they have had troubles previously getting traction in the German market. It looks like they have woken up to this and are starting to make some progress. So although not so useful to us as a recruiting drive it was a great presentation nonetheless. Here are some notes:
Six Key changes in Marketing:
We never know what we will get at these presentations. Sometimes the speaker simply tells us how good their company is, sometimes they don't even mention the company and simply give us a presentation to somehow inspire us to join the company. This one from Infosys was somewhere in between. Unfortunately for many of us who are interested, they are looking for experienced German nationals to give them a direct contact with the industry here. They are expanding rapidly in Germany currently. Due to their employee demographic being 96% Indian they have had troubles previously getting traction in the German market. It looks like they have woken up to this and are starting to make some progress. So although not so useful to us as a recruiting drive it was a great presentation nonetheless. Here are some notes:
Six Key changes in Marketing:
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