Leadership Without Mind Games by Frank Hagenow

Author:Frank Hagenow
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: GABAL Verlag
Published: 2021-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

We make most of our decisions based on personal interactions. We should take this into account when dealing with psychological tricks.

Why Cheap Isn’t Always Better

Dealing with rhetorical and psychological tricks is a popular topic – you see it often on the media and on bookstore shelves. In their books on these topics, however, authors often write about the manipulative aspects and try to react by teaching how to use wit to skillfully rebut or counter an argument. The aim is to defeat the “aggressor” with their own weapons or even better ones in order to emerge as the winner from a situation. The problem is that this only creates another win-lose scenario where the aim is to get the upper hand.

Have you ever had to listen to your fellow travelers talking on the train, at the airport or at the train station lounge after work? Then you know that such conversations revolve around the daily struggle apparently raging everywhere in the business jungle. It’s all about not letting the boss take advantage of you or indirectly telling your colleague, once again, what you think, or setting boundaries and not letting anyone browbeat you. The incompetence and the mistakes of colleague X can be subjects expounded in all their unfortunate detail and with a great deal of excitement, and sometimes the person’s real name is mentioned quite bluntly, even several times, until everyone has understood it. The incompetence or dastardly character traits of bosses are discussed openly, extensively, and enthusiastically as well, as if there could be absolutely no one in the premises who might possibly know the person in question. People are thoughtless as they get carried away in their blissful rant and totally disregard the notion of data protection. Recently, on a flight to Vienna, I had the opportunity to get to know the entire department and the board of a well-known DAX company within a very short time. In the row behind me, two department managers were having an intensive and powerful exchange of views on confidential internal affairs. Immediately after landing I quickly sold my shares in this company. In situations like these I always wonder whether people would talk the same way if the persons in question were present. Probably not. A little decency and restraint would certainly help to avoid the worst. In short:

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