Success is not determined by tools and methods, but by an in-depth understanding of how companies achieve consistency and of what often causes them to fail. However, it is not enough for a few brave souls to act as flag bearers while others follow behind.
Matthias Kolbusa’s presentations show how the entire organization can rally emotionally behind the idea, goal and strategy of an offensive in order to lead it to success at the earliest juncture. Matthias Kolbusa gives his presentations in either German or English and is equally at home addressing international audiences around the globe. On foreign stages, he reveals the strategic art and the energy of implementation with which German companies continue to position themselves as international market leaders.
If you have always wanted to know why targets, plans and activities alone are not enough to conquer markets and change the world, Matthias Kolbusa will show you perspectives and ways to turn an already strong company into an outstanding one.
Lecture “Implementation strength”
Most organizations are not short on ambitious goals and good strategies. The problem they have is not with knowledge, but with implementation! For whatever reason, the available “horsepower” does not get things moving, the cogs do not mesh as they should and could. Projects drag on unnecessarily and become more expensive than expected. As a result, teamwork also suffers. What are the causes of this constantly dwindling implementation strength that leaves us and our organizations lagging behind our potential? Which levers beyond the customary can be used to release the brakes and unleash the “horsepower”?
Carsten Evers, CFO, thyssenkrupp steel Europe SE
„I came, I saw, I conquered.“ This is unfortunately the reality of many organizations. Because results are not decided by the efficiency of a filing system, but by implementation. However, immaturity, confusion about priorities, going round and round in circles or keeping a low profile prevents action. Where does this inconsistency come from? Matthias Kolbusa dissects this particular vice in an amusing and expert manner. Using real cases, he shows how we can manage ourselves, others and our organizations more consistently without needing to be ruthless. He makes the case for a culture of criticism, strong decision-making and a fast pace of implementation, in which courage, openness, commitment and trust lead to above-average performance.
Lecture “Consistency”
Dr. Leonhard Birnbaum, CEO, e.on
These three qualities are at the heart of Matthias Kolbusa’s philosophy. The strategy and change expert, entrepreneur, speaker and bestselling author has seen thousands of managers in action around the globe and has advised them on best practice. His insight? What really gets us ahead is not meetings, planning and monitoring, but courage, speed and consistency. Against a background of rapidly changing markets, we need to cut the idle chatter, stop paying lip service and eliminate unnecessary complexity. In their place, we need more clarity and honesty in our dealings with one another and more consistency in our actions.
In a series of inspiring presentations, the self-confessed “dissident” conveys his insights both vividly and provocatively. As an expert observer of human nature, he takes a critical but constructive look at management situations, turns things on their head, switches perspectives and thus provides valuable food for thought that is far removed from the mainstream. For Matthias Kolbusa, intensive reflection serves as a source of inspiration for a long-term, sustainable increase in productivity and innovative strength.
In strategy development, implementation programs, change projects and/or other major undertakings, the really good ideas often don’t even make it to the table because we unnecessarily get in each other’s way. Yet people really do want to achieve things, to cooperate and support each other. In most cases, it’s the normal and all-too-human traits that repeatedly lead us to seek to make a name for ourselves, that trap our thinking and reasoning in the categories of “them” and “us”, and that cause us to bunker down in silos so that we don’t work together as we could.
These social blocks within the company needs to be identified and removed without anyone losing face. In the eyes of his clients, Matthias Kolbusa has an extraordinary talent for steering such phenomena in a fruitful direction. In doing so, he develops a special quality of strategic thinking that not only raises the content of his findings to a new level, but also helps people to develop in terms of their maturity and ability to work with others. He succeeds in reawakening the fundamental will of those involved to work together and, alongside existing hierarchical and procedural structures, to create social structures in which 1 + 1 adds up to far more than 2.
Matthias Kolbusa
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