Guest - DZ Bank

If you do something with not only today in mind, but also tomorrow. Not focussing on a short term gain but rather on the long term effects

1. Language barrier preventing her from attending a higher school. Parents disagreeing with school (Strategic decision = Strategic leadership starts with your own mind.

2. (Wine example). Strategic decision: Continue being yourself & still having a career. Differentiate between changing yourself and being agile „Autobahn“ program in Deutsche Bank.

Strategic Leadership: Including and informing your team -> Getting them to stand behind you. Incentivize/Disincentivize certain actions

Turning your perceived weakness in your strength -> This starts in the head.

1. (Saudi Arabia example with women being disallowed from entering public building. Meeting CFO. Respecting their rules and staying outside. CFO embarassed -> Became an advantage -> Think about the team impact and not your ego -> Does it benefit the team

How to strategically implement change: Constellation of team doesn’t provide the languages to cover a certain sector -> barrier because of non-diversity. Implement change in a non-disruptive/long-lasting change. Get them behind you and support the change. Starting to hire from universities across the globe but not firing the existing members to meet a quota. This can take a long time but it doesn’t matter

Diversity problem: Soluting simultaneously having an older and younger person do a job. Older personal retires after 2-3y and younger person takes over.

Fine balance between respecting the culture you’re working in & leaving your own footprint (e.g. „Sie“ & „Du“, she offered to do it the more informal way and broke the hierarchy-barrier of offering it. Asses the situation if you’re imposing yourself too much of if it’s a desirable change for everybody)

-Navigating cultural differences by finding common ground

-Bringing the best out of everyone

-Diversity quotas not in terms of female/male, but it rather brings diversity of thought