Leading with Heart

Leadership has become more demanding in terms of content, more time-consuming, increasingly challenging and more important overall than ever before. Discover how you can lead successfully as a versatile leader with dignity, values and trust in the digital world of work 4.0 – through a suitable mindset, a broader understanding of the goals and motives of leadership and the right communication skills. Firstly, learn to understand leadership in the context of social systems. This involves an understanding of leadership, neurobiological findings and core skills. This is followed by specific instructions on how to become a leader 'with heart'. Leadership and personality Part 1 of the book is about seeing people in their entirety and understanding leadership in the context of social systems. The analysis of the framework conditions deepens the topics: VUCA world, leadership roles and styles, and the experience of crisis. Models such as the circle of potential, the two-point model, the "Big Five" and the "Hogan Personal Inventory" provide a basis for a better understanding of human nature. They answer questions such as: How should people be viewed in the modern working environment? What helps and what hinders the development of their potential? How should human behaviour patterns be viewed? The role of human values and dignity becomes clear. By combining different experiences and findings from individual psychology, neurobiology, cybernetics, systems theory and automation technology, a new perspective on leadership can be derived: The so-called Communication Flow Model (KFM). This leadership model integrates business and social tasks and requirements in equal measure. The interaction between manager and employee is depicted as the regulation of a complex social system. This…