At Confare CIO Summit in Vienna two years ago I attended a keynote from the German business consultant, coach and author Lars Vollmer. Lars proclaimed: „You should work more“. I was stunned. We were already working hard. How should we make this possible?
Lars distinguishes between two types of corporate activities. One which generates added value for customers . And one which has no value add for customers, it‘s sole intention is nurturing and fostering the hierarchy. That‘s what Lars calls „Business Theater“. And he suggests to rigorously eliminate that second type of activities which in turn enables organizations to do more value work for it's customers. A fascinating thought.
In the following weeks and months we were in search of „business theater“ within our organization. And guess what, we have found a lot. Subsequently we have started eliminating those, one by one. Our ‚clearance’ process has started in 2018 and it will (hopefully) never end.
Book recommendation: „Zurück zur Arbeit“ - Lars Vollmer.
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