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Restructuring. Optimizing. Downsizing. In today’s ever-changing world of business, these are probably some of the scariest words for employees. For they are just politically correct ways of saying: the company is laying off. And it might be any of us.

How losing a job can benefit one’s career and life For most people, talking about outplacement immediately conjures up scenes from the infamous movie Up in the Air, where George Clooney character is hired by emotionless and cowardly executives to do their “dirty work” for them

Agility became one more household word in leadership lately, especially after it was fully embraced by the booming IT industry. In its essence, it requires quickly adapting to changing circumstances, flexibility, reshaping strategies, structures, people and technologies.

Get REAL: A is for Agility (Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!) The story goes that in ancient Greece a boastful athlete bragged that he once achieved a stupendous long jump in competition on the island of Rhodes.

Feelings have been the “F” word in the business world for longer than we care to remember. How it came to be the all-accepted truth that feelings (emotions) don’t belong in a workplace? If it is so, where it came from?

Get REAL: E is for Empathy (The F word in business) Today's business world is full of clichés which, in time, became accepted as fundamental truths about the way the world functions. One of the most common being: It’s nothing personal, it is just business. It serves as explanation for many dubious and non-

Humans are social creatures and in the world defined by „social distancing“ we have to look for both proactive and practical strategies to maintain resilience and sustain business success.

Get REAL: R is for Resilience There is no such thing as the new normal. What we are experiencing now is a direct consequence of our actions before.