Lukas Michel – författare

It is a new era. To win in an increasingly dynamic and volatile environment, leadership teams must be agile - they must be flexible enough to react to early signs and act on them quickly. An agile company needs good decision-making at all levels - from the centre to the periphery, tapping into the full potential of the people, operating model, information technology and leadership practices. And decisions are made by people. This guide forces you to re-examine the assumptions underlying your leadership and how agility within your company can be built through a three-point, people-centric approach. The author's insights will help you understand your options, make the choices required to successfully coach your team, and start creating agility as a competitive advantage today.

Agility in business has become one of the most important management topics of recent times. The ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent business environment is the essence of agile. But being agile starts with the leader, who has to make the shift from traditional "command and control" to "enabling people". This book is a practical workbook for leaders on their journey to achieving agility. It moves the conversation over agility into practice; exercising measures and techniques that will encourage leaders to adapt with changing times. To help and encourage leaders to make that personal shift, it offers ideas and tools to master agility in their organizations. Designed to be sensible and self-reflecting, the book also includes an appendix of over 20 exercises that have been tried and tested with executives all over the world in their successful pursuit of agile.

The time has come for better management. But better management is not merely about adding new labels to the current ways of doing things; it is much broader than efficiency and alignment. In this book, Lukas Michel offers senior executives and managers tools to understand a new way of discussing and thinking about management and work, which requires us to take on a broader perspective of the company and its culture. It's every manager's prime job to manage better: to change the way they lead people and how they organise work in the new (post-pandemic) business context. The book discusses the role of the operating system to do that and clarifies managerial priorities and goals. This then sets the stage for Diagnostic Mentoring - the methodology that enables the transformation of the way we manage.

Management in turbulent times needs greater vision and foresight. This book offers an exciting visual-thinking approach to help managers, leaders and entrepreneurs think through their options and find a way that best meets the needs of their businesses, that supports their talent to perform at their peak, and simultaneously builds the capabilities to cope with turbulent times. The author presents management as a system or a model through a combination of graphics, diagrams and text. Management models are immensely valuable and will enable managers to more easily think, make decisions, behave and act in line with the company's overall strategy and objectives. Moreover, when management models are articulated and shared, it can save time, focus attention and release productive energy. This book essentially helps managers to gain a better perspective of their businesses and key activities. It becomes a valuable tool for managing companies and people in these ever-changing and turbulent times.

Management guru Henry Mintzberg defines “management” as the art, science and craft to get work done. In that sense, management touches everyone, everywhere, anytime. For all business leaders, management is one of the most basic and important processes to achieving your goals. This important book shows how management can be turned into your competitive advantage. For management to be a competitive advantage, it must be better management. Recent research has shown that companies that have established agile, people-centric and dynamic capabilities – and have got rid of traditional management methods – outperform others by a huge margin. From this, the author offers six key principles of better management, that will provide the platform for all business leaders and organizations to make the shift towards greater performance.

This book argues that people-centric leadership is essential to succeed in the new dynamic business context. It offers four agile levers for leaders to unlock the full potential of people and turn valuable business opportunities into value for society. The challenge for leaders is to balance the tensions between the changing business context and the needs of people to apply their potential. People are at the centre of attention in this book. To unlock the full talent of people and succeed in a dynamic context, people need a work environment which differs from traditional organizations. It's an organization with tools, capabilities, and a culture designed for people. It caters to the individual. Organizations that want to deliver superior outcomes in a dynamic environment require agility - agile tools, agile capabilities - and a culture with a shared mindset that enables people to serve customers.

Evidence suggests that only about 10% of start-ups and 30% of entrepreneurs make it beyond 5 years. Methods for control and leadership in the start-up or early growth stages are wildly different from those needed to successfully manage a complex organization consisting of multiple departments, divisions, product lines, or geographic spread. To succeed, business leaders should be aware of which stage their organization is in, the characteristics of the current stage, and the characteristics of the next stage. This book explores various common patterns of management styles and then offers transition strategies to help managers to succeed in the digital economy. The authors guide leaders to prepare for these transitions by laying the foundations or infrastructure needed to prevent a crisis that inhibits further growth. They also provide leaders with a greater understanding of the growth framework, which will help leaders to manage better the development of their companies.

We've all witnessed it. Companies floundering, projects derailed, and entire organizations crippled by poor leadership. This isn't incompetence; it's "Unmanaged" – a pervasive condition where leaders muddle through, applying minimal effort, ignoring best practices, and ultimately jeopardizing the very fabric of their organizations. This book delves into the root causes of this unmanaged state and argues that mastery in management is not just desirable, it’s essential for organizational success in today’s dynamic world.The book exposes the dangers of unmanaged companies and the devasting consequences of neglecting effective management. It guides you on the journey to management mastery to bring management practices back on track. It equips you with the tools and frameworks to develop high-performing management systems. And it challenges your assumptions about leadership and inspires you to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement. This is not just another management book. It’s a wake-up call for leaders, boards and anyone who cares about organizational success.

Mastery in the 21st-century digital economy demands a new approach. This book offers a groundbreaking guide for business leaders looking to navigate the complexities of this new era. Based on extensive research and proprietary tools like the Capability Profile and Leadership Scorecard, this book moves beyond outdated management techniques to provide a practical framework for success. It reveals how to identify your organization's dominant patterns – whether based on management style, growth stage, or industry – and then leverage that insight to overcome capability barriers that stifle growth and innovation.The book is not just a theoretical exploration; it is a hands-on resource filled with actionable business cases. Through 21 detailed examples from diverse industries like Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, and Education, you will gain a deep understanding of what truly drives performance. The book’s unique application of the "digital twin" concept to management provides a visual, data-driven representation of your organization, helping you to "see around corners" and make informed, low-risk decisions. By adopting this dynamic approach, you can master complexity, anticipate change, and unlock sustainable competitive advantage.

Modern leaders face intense pressure to move fast and look decisive, often resorting to rapid restructuring and sudden pivots to signal strength. But this obsession with speed is a trap. It forces executives to rely on past assumptions rather than actual observation, turning experience into hasty judgment. When you act on incomplete fragments – like anecdotal evidence or surface-level dashboards –  you inadvertently trigger a cycle of temporary fixes, organizational fatigue and strategic drift.This concise book introduces a critical discipline for the modern era: pausing to see an organization clearly before attempting to change it. Moving beyond abstract theory, Clarity Before Change provides executives with practical tools—like the "Organization Twin"—to map capabilities without bias and replace organizational blame with productive curiosity. Far from preaching hesitation, this research-backed guide delivers a blueprint for precise, intelligent transformation, showing that the ultimate competitive advantage is strategic composure under complexity.

Modern corporate complexity has officially outpaced human perception. While leaders have spent decades building extraordinary digital tools for finance, marketing and operations, the core practice of management still relies on intuition, episodic dashboards and guesswork. As The Organization Twin reveals, leaders do not fail due to a lack of effort or intelligence; they fail because they are forced to guide systems they cannot fully see. This structural blindness results in "unmanaged states" – invisible misalignments, systemic friction and talent fatigue that quietly drain organizational energy. This book introduces a revolutionary breakthrough to solve this crisis: a data-informed digital mirror that maps an enterprise's true architecture, turning blind intuition into disciplined, shared awareness.Backed by 25 years of research and a global database of over 50,000 datapoints, the book provides the missing instrumentation of 21st-century leadership. equips business leaders with a practical cockpit to visualize five critical dimensions: structure, capability, alignment, dynamics, and context. By capturing the organization’s true voice, The Organization Twin bridges the gap between complex data and human nuance, allowing leadership teams to expose hidden risks, replace internal blame with productive curiosity, and execute continuous innovation.