Wladimir Klitschko, Stefanie Bilen

Challenge Management (englische Ausgabe) (eBook, PDF)

What managers can learn from the top athlete

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Like no other professional athlete, Dr. Wladimir Klitschko took care of his career outside the world of competitive sports while he still was an active boxer. He founded K2 Promotions, the KLITSCHKO Foundation, and the KLITSCHKO Management Group. In 2016 he even created a degree program at the prestigious University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, in which he teaches the basics of Self- and Challenge Management. KLITSCHKO Ventures, the holding company in which all his business activities are incorporated, followed. Dr. Wladimir Klitschko knows that a professional athlete has many skills from which the world of business can profi t. It is his special talent to regard problems as challenges and accept them as a part of life. In this book, he fi nally explains how he does it. Now it's your turn to use his methods to make your business succeed, to master your personal challenges, and to take charge of your work and life! "There are some people in this world who simplyare fantastic role models. They are people who are consistent and have great power of persuasion; people who are persistent and become successful because of this. This is the kind of person I consider Wladimir Klitschko to be." Bill McDermott, SAP SE CEO

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593438993
• Artikelnr.: 50928739

Autorenporträt

Dr. Wladimir Klitschko is a former boxer who achieved worldwide fame as world heavyweight champion, having gained the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA titles. Having earned a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in sports science, he is a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen as well as a successful entrepreneur. Stefanie Bilen is a journalist and author. She has worked for magazines and newspapers such as Handelsblatt, the Harvard Business Manager and the Wall Street Journal. She holds a degree in Business Studies and studied Business Journalism at the Georg-von-Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists. She enjoys sailing and running but is yet to try boxing.

Inhaltsangabe

Content Welcome, Tatjana Kiel 7 Foreword, Bill McDermott: Fight, Fall, and Rise 9 What a Fight! 13 Part I Challenges Are the Air that We Breathe 1. How It All Began 17 2. Ergo sum: I Know Who I Am 31 3. I Am not a Dummy, I Can Walk by Myself 61 4. Knowledge Grows if We Share It 78 Part II My Twelve Ways to Respond to Challenges Way 1: Enabling and Using Coopetition 95 Way 2: Thinking Progressively and Acting Courageously 97 Way 3: Learning from Defeats to Create New Potential 99 Way 4: Making Use of Your Successes and Letting Others Partake in Them 101 Way 5: Planning Long-Term and Continuously Demonstrating Performance 103 Way 6: Using Rest Periods to Reflect 105 Way 7: Focusing on the Essentials 107 Way 8: Trusting Your Own Competences 109 Way 9: Identifying Potential and Harnessing It 111 Way 10: Explosively Releasing Top Performance 113 Way 11: Creating Organizational Structures 115 Way 12: Knowing and Using Your Opponent's Strengths and Weaknesses 117 Part III How Experts Use Challenge Management Practically Way 1: Coopetition, Frank Dopheide 121 Way 2: Progressivity, Alyssa Jade McDonald-Bärtl 127 Way 3: Defeats, Rolf Schumann 134 Way 4: Successes, Ibrahim Evsan 141 Way 5: Planning and Performance, Christian Seifert 147 Way 6: Reflection, Miriam Goos 154 Way 7: Essentials, Jens Schmelzle 160 Way 8: Competences, Jean-Remy von Matt 166 Way 9: Potential, Leopold Hoesch 172 Way 10: Top Performance, Mathias Ulmann 179 Way 11: Organizational Structures, Astrid Schulte 185 Way 12: Strengths and Weaknesses, Torsten Bittlingmaier 192 Epilogue, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Don't Listen to the Naysayers! 199 Acknowledgments 203 Index 205