Blog – brain in spa

7 Must-Haves for Leaders in a VUCA world

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 7 November 2019

Today's business world is different than it used to be, requiring business leaders to have new sets of skills to succeed. The sheer amount of responsibility that CEOs now must face can be incredibly overwhelming. The term that many apply to this concept is VUCA, which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. This concept shows how the state of the...

How To Access Your Peak Performance And Not Burn Out

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 20 October 2018

There is a feeling some people call “being overwhelmed.” It makes them unsure about where to start because there are a trillion things requiring their attention. Others call it “being off-balance.” Something feels just not right. And then there are those who keep repeating what nobody can hear anymore because everyone is feeling the same thing: “I am so stressed. I don’t even...

How to successfully maneuver your business by creating a smart strategy

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 7 October 2018

A couple of years ago, organizations of all sizes were proud to have their high-caliber strategy department where some young and not-so-young smart brains thought about the best direction for the company given the current situation, anticipated challenges, and upcoming trends. Today things are different. The same companies face fundamental strategic uncertainties, which question the basis of their business models....

A Digital Diet to Enhance Productivity

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 29 September 2018

You read diet and you think of losing weight? How come? Well, simple answer because that’s what we normally want when we are interested in reading something about a diet, right? But what if I told you that the next sentences won’t be about reducing your calorie intake, lowering your blood sugar level, doing more exercise and taking the stairs...

3 Leadership Abilities That Account For 50% Of Your Profit

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 23 September 2018

What if I told you that your profits don’t come from your great products or services? They also don’t come from your latest online campaign, and they certainly don’t come from your improved multichannel strategy. So where do they come from? The answer is simple: According to the recent Mercer study, 52% of a company’s long-term profitability is directly related to the...

5 Golden Rules For High Performing Digital Industries

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 15 September 2018

To make best performance possible in the digital industry, we need to make sure we change the organizational setting in a way that allows individuals to act autonomously, easily acquire and access the needed competences and understand the purpose of the work they do. For some organizations this sounds like a difficult, tedious task, whereas others consider this the basics...

Who Scores High In The Digital Game? Y Generation Talents!

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 20 July 2018

Despite all the technological innovations taking place, we need to keep in mind that there is a human factor that plays a vital role in the digital industry. We can automate processes, we can have robots as new team members, and we can work with smart, connected, shared devices that tell us what we want before we even know it....

Three Strategies For Retaining Millennial Talent

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 3 July 2018

By now, it’s considered a fact that employee engagement is an issue for senior leaders all over the world. And where there is missing engagement, there is high turnover. This is where companies lose millions. But they don’t have to. A Gallup study estimated that millennial turnover due to lack of engagement costs the U.S. economy about $30 billion annually. Given that...

The One Thing You Can’t Buy That Gets Your Business Ahead

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 13 May 2018

One of the most common challenges my senior management clients face is how to foster curious, high-performing, healthy and engaged employees during an era in which constant change and innovation are keys to success (see also Leadership In The Digital Age). The answer is actually simple: The No. 1 factor for preparing employees across functions and business units to become a...

5 Pieces Of Advice For Leaders To Deal With Toxic Employees

Written by Michaela Lindinger on 4 May 2018

It is a question that many leaders at different levels and industries keep asking themselves at least on a weekly basis: If research is correct that the quality of my life depends on my social connections, which in return impact my happiness, how should I handle those 40+ hours a week with negative and even toxic people around me? They...