Page 24 - Company Excellence

Part I: Preface

Comprehensive research: what makes companies more
successful at all times

At SCHEELEN® AG, as a holistic consulting company, we have been
asking ourselves for decades what makes and keeps companies
successful in good times and in times of crisis. I have already
published and written many books on this subject - some with
international leadership and management experts such as Jack
Zen- ger and Joe Folkman or Brian Tracy, because the challenges of
globalization, digitalization, disrupted supply chains and the
shortage of skilled workers, demographic as well as socio-political
aggravations pose major challenges to companies almost worldwide.
In 2021, we looked at the question of what really makes people
tick in publications - and now, as a kind of continuation, we are
examining the other way round from the perspective of what
companies really need. More precisely: What companies really need
to get through these volatile times together with the people on board
and to secure a certain basic resilience. Of course, when supply
chains break, energy costs eat up profits and destroy margins,
blackouts paralyze production lines, or hacker attacks cause serious
data leaks, it's a matter of taking ad hoc measures to ensure the
survival of the "company" organism in the short term. But this
organism is the people who work in it. They believe in an idea and, in
the best case scenario, find meaning and - perhaps not fulfillment -
but self-efficacy as well as attention and recognition in their work.
They must be equipped with the right competencies, skills and
abilities, resources and resilience. There must be a match between
challenges, opportunities, knowledge and skills. To achieve this - and
this is what this book will also be about - we naturally use the well-
known and validated "SCHEELEN® tools" such as OutMatch
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