Tools, methods
& knowledge.
Practical tips for implementation and specialist articles from 20 years of consulting — sorted by the topics organisations really work on.
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Nine sections, one common thread: from strategy to the large group — every article out of consulting practice.
Change management
Craft and knowledge for change processes that land in everyday work — not in a drawer.
All articles →Corporate culture & cultural change
What culture really is, how to make it visible and how to change it — including the models.
All articles →Leadership & collaboration
What good leadership consists of, how teams grow together and how collaboration becomes productive.
All articles →Workshops & large-group methods
The big formats, with instructions and background — from Future Search to Open Space.
All articles →Post-merger integration
Practical advice for mergers that work — so that two organisations really do become one.
All articles →Strategy development
How strategy comes about, which approaches hold — and where delivery fails in practice.
All articles →Turnaround
Turnaround, restructuring, rebuilding — what really carries organisations through a crisis.
All articles →Mission statements and values
From the mission statement process to values lived day to day — what creates orientation and what fizzles out.
All articles →All our videos
Instructive and with substance: our videos on change, culture, leadership and M&A — to watch and learn from.
To the video series →The archive
The complete collection organised into 28 subject areas: original articles and videos alongside the literature Winfried Berner has reviewed on each topic.
Browse the archive →Quotation collection
Collected by Winfried Berner over decades. Filter by language and topic, with a source for every entry.
Browse the collection →Literature and reviews
Books and papers that Winfried Berner has read and assessed for their usefulness and readability.
Browse the library →Recently published.
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