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Outgrowing High-Performance

Karin Hochsticher June 27, 2025

Remember a decade ago, when it was the goal of every organization to create high-performance teams? It was all about productivity — cutting out slack, being as efficient as possible, and predicting what would happen next through data.

Today, this is no longer enough.
With everything around us changing, it’s about time to evolve – again- how we define successful teamwork and look at the next maturity level: highly adaptable teams.

The 4 AI Archetypes

Stefan Haberberg June 15, 2025

The shift to becoming AI-first…, seen at companies like Duolingo and Shopify, means we’re rethinking how work is done…. It’s not just automation; it’s creating new, essential human roles! 🤔

We want to offer 4 key archetypes for success in an AI-integrated world helping teams to discuss their future roles and career path

Consulting is dead – long live… catalysing?

Stefan Haberberg June 11, 2025

5 years ago, I was predicting for myself: Consulting will be dead. Voices in my team and surrounding said: It will always need people doing this. But doing what? How is the role of a consultant changing in the Age of Chat GPT and Co?

The Lightbulb Network – Viewing and Achieving Digital and Business Transformation Organically

Stefan Haberberg June 11, 2025

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The Inner Circle: Is Your Company Run by a Gang?

Karin Hochsticher June 1, 2024

Remember the scene in “Friends” when Rachel felt pressured to start smoking? She felt excluded, because both her boss and her colleague used to disappear together for smoking breaks, and when they came back, the big decisions were made between the two of them.

This is a great example of a harmful cultural pattern, the phenomenon of “the inner circle”.

Moving away from Silos

Karin Hochsticher May 25, 2024

Working in silos- the bigger the company, the more likely you are to encounter this cultural pattern.
Silos, the vertical walls between divisions, are created to allow functional specialization in the name of efficiency. However, when market dynamics are high, it is not efficiency that wins but adaptability.
Here’s why silos can be problematic in complex environments: