BLOGS & NEWS
Dealing with Covid 19
A report about an IMO masterclass in China in times of Covid 19. In May of 2019, the 2nd IMO Horizontal Masterclass was launched in Beijing. Forty participants joined the program. It was planned to be finished in August 2020. After finishing the third module in...
A reliable friend for oneself to lean on and lead learning
Reflections on a book by Hannu Tuovinen To understand and live in the organized working life, the methodology of horizontal leadership offers a realistic, reliable and comprehensive approach. During year 2014 I translated the book “Inside the Change” by Adriaan Bekman...
Covid19 Virus as the Challenge
The challenges in our relocation and getting ready for covid19 have been going well in a united front. There has not been nearly any conflicts between executives. We received a lot of hints and wisdom about how to listen, to take up issues and to give feedback. ...
Step School
Also the quarantine could not stop the activities around the STEP SCHOOL in Russia. I never thought that it would be possible to do the conscious movement we use in the Step School online, by using the Zoom platform for it. But it is possible, and I see that people...
Parameters for World Leadership Steering
Introduction All human beings in the world are confronted with issues that vary from very personal till concerning all of us worldwide and these issues vary in nature from our personal health till worldwide economic recessions and financial crisis. It is not so easy...
Corona and horizontal leadership
We all experience the corona crisis in different ways. For me the work we planned with our clients is postponed and mostly will happen after the summer I guess. No travelling but staying home. But also, I am now fully available for the zoom web-seminars on “Inside the...
IMO on its way to South Africa
The two German IMO colleagues Alexander Schwedeler and Timothy Apps travelled to Johannesburg for a few days at the end of September. The focus was on working with the management team of Bosun, a manufacturer of paving stones of all kinds. http://bosun.co.za Current...
Second Masterclass China
In August 2019 we had module II of our second masterclass, organised and performed by IMO China. The frist masterclass with 25 people had started in January 2018 and ended in May 2019. The second masterclass started in May 2019. We then repeated module I in August in...
IMO School
Since June 2019 we have the IMO School in action. We started the first of three modules that concentrate on the basics of the IMO methodology in Bisk Siberia Russia. Yuri Nikitin (Anix) and Tatina Babanova (IMO) organized this...
IMO China May update
In May we started the second IMO China Masterclass in Beijing with 23 participants. The local team did great work with the enrolment and worked together smoothly during class. A new concept was introduced. Next to content and exercises we introduced Quick Solution...
The power of community
In April Russian IMO group was hosting three big events – International IMO Conference, and two events for clients: Synergy of Individuals business dialogue and a seminar on Family Companies. Hosting international meeting of our IMO community in Russia was an exciting...
IMO International Days in Sochi
This year the IMO community had their development days in Sochi, Russia. 45 IMO colleagues shared client processes and methodological innovations. Each morning we started singing and moving with Hans Peter, our Swiss colleague. Each morning one of the colleagues...
Horizontal Leadership award
The IMO master Horizontal Leadership received an important award in Italy by the National Association of trainers (AIF) in the section Research and innovation –Master &Academia for the scientific organizational innovation and experiential didactics. The award...
IMO China Foundation March 2019
On the seventh of March 2019 we officially initiated the IMO China Team. The team has eight members. Alexander Schwedeler is the Team Leader. After a year starting up IMO activities in China and forming the IMO China Team, we experienced the great moment of founding...
First IMO Footprint in the USA
Invited by the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Suzan Harrison of the Eckerd College, a liberal arts and sience college in St. Petersburg, Florida, I had the opportunity work to with faculty members and directors for Academic Affairs. In two...
IMO Finance
Read an interesting series of blogs about the IMO vision on finance. Timothy Apps and Alexander Schwedeler introduce a new approach to learn to read the moneystream in relation to the important processes in an organization.