Ego and greed not only block the personal development, but also the processing of important information in Companys, There are examples that have broken this spiral. 

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The mental coach as a profiler

When companies book me as a mental coach for personal development, this task often resembles a profiling of the Employees. From my preliminary talk, I usually know which participants are more susceptible to illnesses or perhaps had already dropped out due to a state of exhaustion.

The course of such a seminar is always similar. So also this one in a well-known company for IT-Solutions in information technology. The participants were the HR manager and Executives from different departments.

If all come too late

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The seminar started with it not starting. At the agreed time, only three of the 10 participants were in the meeting room. This already said a lot about the leadership qualities of the participants.

Also the manager came too late. It was only by degrees that the rest of the participants came in, some of them with their mobile phones. I could feel the tension of these leaders. Physically they were all there, but mentally at their desk or elsewhere.

Create awareness and cause people to act

I was clearthat I need undivided attention, otherwise every minute would be wasted time. For me and for the participants who kept checking their smartphones for the first few minutes. After 15 minutes I left the room with the words:

"I'll give my girlfriend a call."

Silence! After a minute I came back in and explained that this was the one Spiegelcalled method, with which one creates awareness and People can cause an action.

“You have 5 minutes”

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What the executives thought in the minute of my absence I leave to your imagination. The fact is, the hiring manager rose and said to the executives:

“You have five minutes to tell your assistants that you are unavailable for the next six hours. Furthermore I ask you to switch off your telephones now ”.

Apparently, she had immediately understood what I wanted to achieve, and she had acted. Chapeau!

Focus on the important thing

After that I had the undivided awareness everyone present and the seminar was a great success. It's always about the here and now, about paying full attention to the moment. Because that Brain processes only the information we focus on.

Everything else is erased, even if it is part of reality. After the initial profiling of the extrovert participants, the introverts outgrew themselves. It became many blockages resolved, which, as is so often the case, were nothing more than misunderstandings in the Communication.

How does sustainable personality development work?

In the next 14 days I received from various participants some very personal ones Emails how much I spoke to them from the heart and how positively the togetherness would have improved.

It was the best seminar they had ever attended, because each employee had now taken on more responsibility. It was not about what the others can do for me, but what can I do for others. Because successful management is always achieved between people and through feelings. The participants had understood and implemented this.

No continuing education in personal development will bring the desired success sustained achieve if the participants do not attend the seminar voluntarily. We find this desire for free and creative development particularly in Generation Y. Activating human potential lies in creating space for it. This in an inspiring community.

"If you fast years Objective want to come, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. "

What causes greed in people

neuroscientist the University Würzburg were able to establish a connection between greed as a personality trait and risky Behavior produce. High-risk speculation by employees in the financial services industry contributed to part of the financial crisis. Whether in Germany or the USA. We still remember the names in Germany well. In America, in the summer of 2007, the US real estate crisis escalated into a global financial crisis, the consequences of which are still affecting the market today.

What does greed mean exactly? It is the desire for more, whatever the cost – including an excessive pursuit of material goods. So the willingness that one's own pursuit more up Costs letting go of others. A scary thought for me. Especially when you see what people are willing to do on TV the greater the chance of a big win. Unfortunately, the taste of embarrassment often turns into sadness and has nothing to do with funny entertainment. If you ask two people to each inflate a balloon with the goal that the one with the bigger balloon gets a million euros, but you lose everything if the balloon bursts, then you can experience greed live and in colour.

Predict the risk assessment based on the personality trait

Thus, risk propensity can be predicted based on the personality trait greed. In 1986, investor Ivan Boesky held one Rede, the effects of which can still be felt today. Unfortunately no speech that the Welt did a bit better, but rather the opposite. "Greed is good," Boesky told graduate students from America's Haas School of Business, "healthy she is too. You can be greedy and still be comfortable in your own skin feel. "

What I really dislike is the study's finding that greedy people have trouble learning from mistakes and adjusting their behavior. Thus, even after a bank crash, after a short recovery, highly speculative again Shops made. High bonuses, remuneration for financial success, can also activate greed among managers. Aspects of corporate culture can also be triggers. Believe me, when greed bursts like a bubble, many fall, because many Money alone does not bring happiness. It is an important part of our lives when one dies Balance not lose. It is important to question our actions in order to get a new perspective on our striving. Hats off to all top managers who have freed themselves from this spiral of greed and have been leading a new and more than contented life ever since.

The spiral successfully leave

Alexander Hartmann is one of them. He worked in the financial industry for almost 15 years and was well on the way to becoming a Gordon Gekko, as Michael Douglas played in the role of the unscrupulous financial shark in the film “Wall Street”. Most recently he was responsible for almost 50 employees in an internationally active Swiss private bank.

Hartmann now has one Vocational Training made a social worker in a Swiss orphanage. Despite his position, he was neither financially secure until the end of his life nor was he fired. The contrast could hardly have been greater, and this voluntarily. Hartmann's conscience became so loud that he obeyed him and took this step. I have great respect for those people who take an action that changes their entire lives.

Failure and new beginnings

Another example is Stefan Roggenkamp. He worked as an investment banker in London for a good ten years and designed financial derivatives for the Japanese investment bank Mizuho. As the leader of a team with 90 employees, his life was determined by a lot of work, but also accompanied by an enormous one salary and high bonuses as well as a fast life with big cars and lots of parties. Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita between the end of August and the end of October 2005 not only caused devastating damage to nature, but also to Roggenkamp's career. Overnight, the storms wiped out much of his derivatives fund's profits and his job.

This event drew him back to the farm of his parents. After a time out, the 36-former 2006 founded his current company - Roggenkamp Organics - as a manufacturer of organic food. These are now also available in well-known supermarkets in organic market chains such as Alnatura and Basic, but also in delicatessens such as Käfer˙s in Munich. He, too, enjoys this very different life with other values.

We have it in our hands

Little by little, our world is changing and we shouldn't Anxiety anticipate what is to come. Rather, we should reflect on our origin of life. Because there are a lot of chances and possibilities here. Not less successfully, only with another Definition of success.


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