Matthias KolbusaManagement Without Compromises

Inspiration for Mavericks

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Matthias Kolbusa: First Values, Then Words

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expression of insecurity.”Matthias Kolbusa

CourageHe brings courage to the table, no questi-on. A clear stance, not mainstream; stra-ight talking, not clichés. Something you have to be able to take on the chin. Lend him your ear. The result? He’ll give you a piece of his mind, then open your eyes.

SpeedWhat Matthias Kolbusa delivers in an hour, others fail to achieve in 500 pages. He not only thinks fast, he also implements. He will quickly draw you in, transforming your comfort zone into a base camp.

CommitmentFast decisions; clear agreements; keeping your word; meeting deadlines; and bud-gets in any case. You too can achieve all this. Matthias Kolbusa will let you in on the secret of how. You can depend on it. It’s what his name stands for.

OpennessIt’s hard to match him – but not impossib-le. Because his openness rubs off. Matth-ias Kolbusa will help you to see yourself and your company through different eyes. All you need is the will. The desire to chan-ge things will come automatically.

ReliabilityYou can only be reliable if you know what you’re committing to. Matthias Kolbusa is living proof of this. Seal the deal with a handshake if you want more than sweet tal-king. You can be certain – there can be no greater reliability. And no greater motivation.

TrustTrust him. His credo is ‘Urgency’, his trade-mark getting straight to the point without beating about the bush. Trust in yourself, too. You have greater potential than you believe. And Matthias Kolbusa can unlock the treasure chest.

ConsistencyYou’ve already taken the first step by boo-king him. Now all you have to do is embark on the journey. Matthias Kolbusa knows that what you do is what counts and that the path is also the destination. Believe him – there are no limits.

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This is Matthias Kolbusa’s credo. The strategy and change ex-pert, entrepreneur, speaker, and best-selling author has already inspired and assisted thousands of managers around the world. His reali za tion? It’s not meetings, planning, and supervision that take us to the next level, it’s courage, speed, and consistency. In changing markets, we need to reduce “hot air”, lip service, and unnecessary complexity. What is required is more clarity and honesty in our dealings with one another and greater consistency in our actions.

The declared “maverick” expounds his views in inspiring key notes that are as stimulating as they are provocative. An excellent judge of human nature, Matthias Kolbusa examines management situa-tions from a critical but constructive stance; turns things on their head; and changes perspectives to provide valuable, thought- provoking impulses that are far removed from the mainstream. He uses intensive reflection to provide impulses to boost productivity and inno vative power in the long term.

Success is not achieved using tools and methods but thanks to a profound understanding of the factors that enable companies to become consistent and the reasons why they all too often fail in this endeavor. It is, however, not enough for a few people to lead the way while the others follow. Matthias Kolbusa’s keynotes demonstrate how an entire organization can be emotionally rallied behind the idea, goal, and strategy of a campaign, leading it to success at high speed.

Management Without Compromises! Courage. Speed. Consistency.

Matthias Kolbusa gives keynotes in German or English, as re-quired, and is supremely confident in the international arena, wherever the venue may be. When speaking outside of Germany he is, among other things, able to communicate the strategic art and implementation energy that have made German companies international market leaders.

If you have always wanted to know why goals, plans, and acti-vities are not enough to conquer markets and change the world, then Matthias Kolbusa can show you perspectives and ways to transform a strong company into an outstanding one.

In addition to this, Matthias Kolbusa is also a proponent of ge-nuine solutions not messages for the masses outside of his pro-fessional activities. He is a member of the board of the German Club of Rome; an active lay judge; and works as a social coun-sellor. His personal passion is for his family, including his two children. Martial arts and cookery provide him with the relaxa-tion and enjoyment he requires to function as a strong consulting partner for his clients.

“How can we achieve a truly results-oriented management style if we have no idea what exactly will have changed when we’re done?”Matthias Kolbusa

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Lecture: Implementation Strength

There are many, many goals and correct strategies out there. As a rule, the problem most organizations have is not one of knowledge but of implementa-tion! For whatever reason, it is not always possible to translate existing “horsepower” into performan-ce; the cogs in the motor no longer intermesh as they could and should. Projects take unnecessarily long and become more expensive than planned. Inter personal relationships suffer as a result. What are the causes of this repeated loss of implementa-tion strength that results in us and our organizations failing to fulfill our potential? What levers outside of the box can be applied to release the brakes and exploit the “horsepower” we have?

Lecture: CONSISTENCY

“Read, laughed, filed” – the sad reality of many orga-nizations. Because the decisive factor behind results is not filing but implementation. Immaturity, confu-sed priorities, too much talk, or not talking at all can, however, obstruct action. What are the origins of this inconsistency? In an amusing keynote, Matthias Kolbusa examines the causes with an expert’s eye. Using real examples, he demonstrates how we can manage ourselves, others, and our organization more consistently but without being harsh. He advo-cates a culture of criticism, decisiveness, and high speed implementation to facili tate above-average performance based on courage, openness, reliabi-lity, and trust.

What will you take away?• Matthias Kolbusa outlines stimulating

hypotheses to provide in-depth insights into the causes of these phenomena.

• He equips managers with tools and valuable inspiration to create a high- performance culture in which those concerned work gladly, quickly, and, above all, productively with one another, not against one another.

• He cites numerous examples from a diverse range of industries and com-panies to demonstrate how this can be achieved successfully.

Selected content• Organizations can achieve more than

they think!• Emotions – the origins of genuine

enthusiasm and driving force• Results orientation – usually only

presumed to exist• Fear – how to handle uncertainty and

blurring• On technocrats, anarchists and the des-

pe rate – how we like to get in our own way• The value of speed within the conflict

area of perfection • Dialectics – using language to achieve

greater management productivity

What will you take away?• Matthias Kolbusa describes why

inconsistency is so dangerous; how it is expressed; and what its causes are.

• He explains where managers must start in order to activate consistency and inspire the people in their organization for this concept.

• Listeners will discover what kind of culture this requires; what values matter; what they mean; and how to implement them systematically.

Selected content• Consistency vs. harshness – the

difference – mastering consistency within the field of tension of agility

• Levers – reliability and commitment; priorities can overcome dilemmas

• The values of consistency – openness, courage, trust, honor, dignity, comrade ship, loyalty …

• Conflict, criticism, and time. Agreement results in a productive, innovative culture

• Words are silver, action and results are gold. Why communications are overrated

AN INSPIRING PERSONALITYWITH A CLEAR PROFILE

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Lecture: Strategizing for Growth

By leaving the beaten track we can identify excellent strategies to achieve innovative and competitive strength. Conventional strategy in-struments are of limited use for this purpose. How can we develop excellent strategies – with-out jumping through too many methodological hoops? How can we rally our team around new ideas and make sure that they are committed to the required measures? And how can we set a

course to ensure that strategies really are imple-mented? In this highly stimulating lecture, recog-nized strategy expert Matthias Kolbusa provides numerous practical examples to answer these and other questions – going far beyond the stan-dard Apple & friends anecdotes. After attending this lecture, you will no longer see strategy as dry and theoretical but as something that is about fun and passion, taking place at high speed.

What will you take away?• Matthias Kolbusa provides numerous

meta phors, analogies, and many anec-dotes from the field to explain enter-tainingly how strategic thinking works – and how it doesn’t.

• After attending this lecture, you will be raring to unleash your passion for strategy and further development.

• Concrete, specific, directly applicable information on how to proceed enables you to get started immediately.

• Knowledge of successful strategy imple-mentation principles means to know exactly what is required.

Selected content• Strategy inflation – what strategy is and

is not• Why strategy is not a rational but an

emotional issue• Strategic thinking – the blunders to avoid• Planning vs strategy• The sense and nonsense behind strategy

methods• Leaving lip service behind us – how to

generate true commitment• Strategy as a “burning platform” –

the principles of successful strategy implementation

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Matthias Kolbusa: THE BOOKS

Ariston Verlag, 2017ISBN hard back 978-3-424-20137-6

Also available as an e-book

Ariston Verlag, 2014ISBN hard back 978-3-424-20095-9

Also available as an e-book

Consistency!

Management Without CompromisesLead with Clarity and Sincerity

Uncomfortable people get ahead.Matthias Kolbusa is not your average yes man who tells people what they want to hear. His strategy of expressing uncomfortable truths provides valuable thought- provoking ideas for management.

In this book, he makes a case for more clarity and sincerity, providing numerous examples to impart the principles and methods required to achieve success by means of a clear goal. This does not necessarily require constant meetings, planning, and control but instead courage, speed, and, above all, consistency.

A book for all managers and executives who want to sharpen their knowledge of their own personality and work on themselves to achieve greater professional success.

Against the Swarm

How to be Successful byVirtue of Our Own Strength

Three radical attitudes lead to success. Be fast! Perfection can take time; the speed with which you handle your project is cru cial. Be envious! Envy is the best possible tool to gain knowledge about yourself and your own social environment. Be naive! Naivety means having no reservations and is the opposite of complexity. Nothing will get you further than ignoring every form of complexity.

Matthias Kolbusa demands and finds inspiring answers to funda-mental ques tions. When doing so, the unconventional strategy and change expert doesn’t take his cue from the status quo or majority opinions. He consciously challenges the swarm, steering it when it moves in the wrong direction. His credo? Whether we are success ful as people, companies, or a society depends on our inner strength. On the courage to think and act independently in all situations; to gain speed; and to withstand and persevere through the resis tance we encounter when following our own path.

Reinhard Sprenger now has a management colleague who is an equal partner when it comes to leaving slogans and quackery

far behind him.

Dieter Brandes, Management expert, former CEO and member

of the administrative board of Aldi Nord

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MORE BOOKSMORE KOLBUSA

“He is not content to analyze with the eagle eyes of a consultant but instead provides… an efficient guide for use in the field. Mandatory reading for managers who want to advance to the next level.”Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper

“Matthias Kolbusa explains how you can liberate yourself and your staff from them, maintaining a steady course when handling all key corporate tasks.”Management-Journal

“Literature on strategy does not have to be ‘dry’. Matthias Kolbusa delivers the proof in his book ‘The Strategy Scout’.”Absatzwirtschaft – Zeitschrift für Marketing

“Depending on what is required, ‘The Strategy Scout’ suggests paths – including methods that are illustrated with case studies – to achieve a specified goal.”Impulse – Das Magazin für Unternehmer

UmsetzungsmanagementWieso aus guten Strategien und Veränderungen häufig nichts wird

Springer Gabler Verlag, 2013ISBN Hardcover 978-3-658-02236-5Auch als E-Book erhältlich

Der Strategie-ScoutKomplexität beherrschen, Szenarien nutzen, Politik machen

Springer Gabler Verlag, 2013ISBN hard back 978-3-658-03030-8Also available as an e-bookAlso in German

Strategy ScoutHow to Deal with Complexity and Politics During Strategy Development

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013ISBN hard back 978-3-642-35985-9Also available as an e-book / soft back

An Easily Understood Adventure Trip into the Strategy JungleThere is a much better chance of politically establishing a strategy in your company if its development has already been consi dered from a tactical perspective and all the participants have been included in an intelligent manner. Matthias Kolbusa demonstrates how to shape this process to ensure that you generate a sustainable strategy that can be implemented using methodological tools; ensure stability; and achieve a new, unique market position for your company.

Implementation ManagementHigh-Speed Strategy Implementation

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013ISBN-13: 9783642420351

Guiding Strategies to Their Goal at High Speed and With Minimal EffortTechnology, demography, and globalization are not only lea-ding to intensified competition; they are also causing business models to emerge faster than ever before disappearing again. Timely recog ni tion of the new; jettisoning of the old; and rapid implementation of required changes within a company are now decisive competitive factors. To survive in future markets, it is necessary not only to carry out strategy and change projects better but also, and above all, faster.

Also in German

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LATERAL THINKING FORGREAT RESULTS

Secrets of EXECUTION®

In the final instance only one thing counts – Results

Every 2–3 months Matthias Kolbusa publishes the Secrets of EXECUTION®, a concentrated, compact newsletter providing key insights on, and hands-on tools for, the implementation of goals and strategies. When doing so, he not only reveals the relevant secrets but also provides solutions. Penetrate be-low the surface of seemingly simple solutions to gain new in-sights into familiar challenges relating to operational, strategic manage ment or the mastering of changes.

Inspiration Letter®

A monthly impetus for reflection and inspiration

Allow yourself to be inspired by a leading management visio-nary who provides concise management-related ideas as the impetus for reflection. With a stimulating FOCUS TOPIC and REFLECTION – a consideration of current hot topics and their effect on the lives and work of managers.

Lateral Thinking: Kolbusa’s Blog

Viewed in isolation, excellent strategies are not worth much – unless they actually achieve something! Thinking strate gically; scrutinizing strategies carefully; refining them quickly; and im-plementing them at high speed gene rates unbeatable compe-titive advantages. To find out how success strategies develop out of entrepreneurial maturity to become skillful, consistent implementation management, read LATERAL THINKING, the blog by Matthias Kolbusa.

Interested? Follow the QR code to view newsletter content.

Follow the QR code to access all blog posts.

“The ‘Secrets’ are just like Mr. Kolbusa – clear and directly results-oriented while, at the same time, refreshingly different.”Stephan Esch, Vorstand (CTO), freenet AG

“An eye opener with a high degree of sustainability.”Dr. Michael Koppitz, Managing Director, Evonik Services GmbH

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Management Performance DayAfter participating in more than 250 strategy and change projects and a vast number of personal management sparring sessions, Matthias Kolbusa knows that by questioning deeply embed-ded habits; identifying false beliefs; and eliminating obstructive prin ciples every manager can immediately increase his or her manage ment performance by 25%!

Implementation Management

There are many, many goals and correct strategies. As a rule, the problem most people and organizations have is not one of knowledge but of implementation. Find out why good strate-gies and changes often fail and how you can alter this. Matthias Kolbusa provides numerous examples, principles, and methods to demonstrate entertainingly how you can guide your objec tives, strategies, and change projects to success at high speed.

Against the Swarm

Find out how to gain the courage and develop the strength to think independently and act successfully even in the face of strong ex-ternal influences. Develop a clear stance to advance yourself and others – to change things in the long term and take charge of your own growth. Even if this entails challenging the conventions; rules; and opinions of others and swimming “Against the Swarm”. Learn where and how constraints and norms form barriers to our thoughts and actions, blocking our chances of success.

POWER SEMINARS THAT DELIVER PERFORMANCE

“When no-one whispers to their neighbor or leaves the room, then Matthias Kolbusa is probably on the stage. You could have heard a pin drop.”Andrea Kessler, Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper

“After one minute, expectation. After five minutes,a frown. After 15 minutes, agreement. After that, delight. What else is there to say?”Nils-Peter Voß, Commerzbank

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“It is becoming increasingly important for top executives to question their own procedures and viewpoints. Matthias Kolbusa offers an excellent forum for doing so.”Roland Polte, Managing Director,Dräxlmaier Group

“Matthias Kolbusa exposes the errors in received wisdom. Once you’ve experienced it, you’ll see the world with different eyes.”Markus Reithwiesner, CEO, Haufe Group

“Matthias Kolbusa tears down barriers to thought.”Rainer von Borstel, CEO,DIEHL Stiftung & Co. KG

“People who always point the finger at others end up lacking the time they need for their own work. And that work starts with themselves.”Daniel Thomas, CEO, HUK Coburg

“Refreshingly clear views on familiar challenges. Highly recommended!”Wybcke Meier, CEO, TUI Cruises GmbH

“Kolbusa advocates a culture of consistency. And he’s right!”Matthias Magnor, CEO,Hellmann Logistics Deutschland

“Stimulating topics and professi-onal moderation. The round table with top-level participants is a great ending to the event.”Jürgen Hermann, CEO, QSC AG

“Kolbusa sharpens your awareness of the key issues in management!”Peter Steiner, Head of Change Management & Communication, OSRAM GmbH

“Methodological, process, and moderation competence all com-plement each other excellently.”Dr. Monika Sebold-Bender,Member of the Board, ERGO Versicherung

“An excellent framework for top executives to discuss their experience, with topics that are highly relevant to management.”Martina Palte, COO, comdirect bank AG

“Stimulating views on current management challenges.”Dr. Heiko Fischer, CEO, VTG Aktiengesellschaft

“If you want to change something in one hour, then Matthias Kolbusa can help you. His forcefulness is impressive.”Dominik Lucius, CFO, FMS Logistics

“Time and again, Matthias Kolbusa manages to put complex (management) issues in a nutshell, providing readers with the impetus for further reflection when doing so.”Dr.-Ing. Leonhard Birnbaum,Board Member, E.ON SE

“Management outside the accepted norm. No new theories, instead standard issues that are, how-ever, often neglected.”Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer,Vice-President of the Management Board, Robert Bosch GmbH “An enriching take on the topic of

culture with valuable insights.”Dr. Thomas Pirlein, Managing Director International Transformation, Aldi International

“A very professional round table with an impressive moderator and inspiring discussion topics that stimulate you to consider new ideas.”Thomas Elsner, Member of the Management Board, CFO, Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG

“The way Matthias Kolbusa puts his finger on a sore spot is refreshingly direct. If you always knew what was right, then this will get you moving.”Christoph Vilanek, CEO, Freenet AG

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Matthias Kolbusa. Decisively Different.“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”When Plato said this, telephone numbers did not yet exist. Luckily, you have the choice today – or can send me an email.I look forward to you and your good decision.

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