Lysan Escher
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oe-tag 2025
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On 13 June 2025 in Halle (Saale)
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SOCIUS brief
8/25 – Creativity and belonging
Dear readers, Don't be afraid of your magic, use it! This quote by adrienne marèe brown, derived from her essay “believing in magic”, appears on one of our SOCIUS postcards. The text begins with the sentence: "This is for all those who find it difficult to believe in magic, but who also know how important it is to [...]
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Culture of cooperation, self-organisation
Alignment Ability
How is collective action energy created? Alignment is a delicate matter. The corridor in which the joint alignment of a team takes place can be wider or narrower. If it is too narrow, the demand for binding common ground becomes a corset. If it is very broad, there is a risk of arbitrariness and disintegration. Alignment does not necessarily only refer to the [...]
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Culture of cooperation, leadership
Leading with attitude
The second module of our annual training programme „Leadership with attitude” recently took place in the beautifully situated Volkenroda Monastery in Thuringia. Together with my colleague Hanna Kunze, we dedicated three intensive days to the topic of “value-orientated leadership”. What are values, which of them characterise my personal leadership actions and how do they relate to the [...]
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Culture of cooperation, leadership
Courageous and reflected effort
Agility, scrum, holacracy, shared leadership and diversity management aim to help organisations deal with new challenges. They are intended to provide them with structural and cultural answers to the developments they are currently facing. These concepts are also „said“ to be able to fundamentally transform power relations in organisations. (see Bauer, Hohl and Zirkler, 2019). Which [...]
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