Heike Bruch – författare

As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows--leading to high and low productivity cycles. Fail to manage your energy correctly, and you risk falling into traps including inertia, complacency, and frenzied, unfocused activity that only erodes the quality of your life. The same holds true for your entire organization. In Fully Charged, Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel provide tools and strategies to help you manage your company's collective energy. First, diagnose your company's "energy state" using the Organizational Energy Matrix. By assessing the intensity (high or low) and the quality (positive or negative) of the energy in your enterprise, you discover which of four energy states your company is experiencing. Second, move your company out of dangerous states characterized by complacency, cynicism, aggression, withdrawal, and other perils. By applying practices mastered by companies as diverse as Airbus, Novartis, SAP, and Tata Steel, you can shift your firm into a state of high, positive energy--in which everyone is emotionally engaged, mentally alert, and working swiftly and productively toward critical goals.Practical and backed by extensive research, Fully Charged reveals how to continually refresh your company's energy--so it's always ready to tackle the next period of high demand.

In "A Bias for Action", Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch reveal that only 10 per cent of managers act purposefully to get truly important work done. "A Bias for Action" shows that great managers produce results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own willpower through a powerful combination of energy and focus. Bruch and Ghoshal provide simple strategies for bolstering individual willpower and action-taking abilities, and explore ways to marshal the willpower of others to encourage collective action.

Der demographische Wandel ist eine der großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Richtig und erfolgreich mit einer alternden und immer altersdiverseren Belegschaft umzugehen, wird zu einer der zukunftsweisenden Aufgaben für die Führung und das Personalmanagement in nahezu allen Unternehmen werden. Die Autoren beschreiben die Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels und thematisieren die Konsequenzen aus der Perspektive der Mitarbeitenden verschiedener Generationen, von Führungskräften und gesamten Unternehmen. Alterungsprozesse sowie insbesondere der zunehmende Generationenmix und seine Folgen werden anschaulich beschrieben und interpretiert, verschiedene Lösungsansätze werden vorgestellt. Best-Practice-Beispiele aus deutschen und schweizerischen Unternehmen stellen Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten aus unterschiedlichen Branchen vor, konkrete Handlungsanweisungen ermöglichen die Planung und Durchführung eigener Projekte.