WITHOUT FREEDOM, LEADERSHIP IS JUST AN F-WORD

Unleashing Employees - Inspiring Customers - Celebrating Success. On Carsten K. Rath's latest book: Thoughts on Freedom, with a foreword by Dr. Florian Langenscheidt

There may be happiness in dictatorships. But in the long run, people want to be free. They do not want to be told how their happiness and life should look - even if the dictator means well. And certainly not to be imprisoned, enslaved, or oppressed. That's why the people in the former Eastern Bloc stood up and swept away the socialist rulers. That's why people in many countries around the Mediterranean shook off their dictators. After the great historical revolutions in Europe and America, after enlightenment and democratization, we have freedom within us like blood in the heart and breath in the lungs: We want to determine who we are and what we do. We want freedom. First from parents, then from teachers, and always from the state. Only at work, freedom was not as much of an issue for the longest time. At work, we still let ourselves be bossed around. Precisely where we spend most of our lives, we let ourselves be led and controlled by the unfree. Why? And how can we change that? Carsten K. Rath addresses these questions in this book. It is the book of someone who set out to learn a new way of leading. Carsten takes his companies and his leadership style on a completely unique path. Accompanying him on this journey is stirring, entertaining, and at times a bit painful. With freedom, it's like healing: sometimes it has to hurt a bit before it can get better. Let's call it: growing pains. Of course, as the mere necessity of leadership already suggests, we should not believe that we could ever be ultimately free. Advertising, fashion, money, environment, media - we are constantly influenced. Autonomy is always apparent. But better seduction and gentle influence than a police state and censorship! At the same time, an excessive amount of freedom unsettles us if it is not directed towards a goal. Too many choices make us unhappy. Some people, on vacation without a schedule, after a while look forward to their clearly structured everyday life. We are not meant to constantly choose between an infinite number of options - and we cannot even make every decision qualifiedly on our own. We seek orientation. Also at work: We want to be led. But not by dictators and autocrats whose only concern is power and personal gain. But by people who want the same as we do: to be free and to make a difference. We want to be free to voluntarily commit ourselves. Freedom without responsibility and commitment may be momentarily attractive, but in the long run, it is like being exposed in the open sea. That's why we take on tasks, fall in love, have children - and work. We create structures and goals out of our own decision. We need them for happiness as much as the freedom to choose them autonomously. Freedom does not guarantee happiness and meaning, but it is a prerequisite for it. Click here to view Stephan Landsiedel's profile: https://www.speakers-excellence.de/redner/stephan-landsiedel-nlp.html Click here to view Carsten K. Rath's profile: https://www.speakers-excellence.de/redner/carsten-k-rath-service-hotelbranche.html