Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times: Design and Implementation Using the 3-P-Model

This book follows on the authors’ successful development of the Three-Pillar Model (3-P Model) for organizing and leading in disruptive times. Its focus is on helping the reader to implement the model and providing a wide variety of application cases for these VUCA times (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), including global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book covers a broad range of organizations: private and public sector, NGOs, local and global governmental institutions, global organizations such as UN, etc. In addition, it shows how the 3-P Model can be applied to challenges in organization design, management and leadership.

Peter Wollmann has been a responsible manager, initiator, mentor and facilitator in large, predominantly global transformations and strategic developments for almost 40 years. Since 2017, he has been working independently in organizational projects and future initiatives. His career began at the Deutsche Herold, then the insurance group of Deutsche Bank where he moved up to strategic leadership, and most recently was program director for global transformations in the Zurich Insurance Company (ZIC). He is the author and publisher of a number of books and articles on strategy, leadership, and project and project portfolio management. He also founded a wine business: VinAuthority.
’Frank Kühn has been facilitating projects on transformation, organization, and leadership for over 25 years. His work connects experience, future thinking, and getting into rapid action with the people. After leadership experience in research and industry, he was a partner at HLP in Frankfurt (Germany) and ICG Integrated Consulting Group in Berlin (Germany) and Graz (Austria). Today he is a self-employed consultant, a business partner of ICG and associated with further development and project partners. He is an author of a multitude of publications.

Michael U. Kempf has been an experienced management consultant for over 20 years. The driving force of his professional activities is his strong ambition to design processes and organizations in a sustainable manner. It is a particular pleasure for him to identify key challenges, to diagnose complex relationships and to assist in shaping the future. Gaining experience and learning something new are indispensable parts of his life, that is why he likes to seize new chances: on his way from a carpenter to studies in social work, education and business administration, in various jobs in social work, during 10 years as manager (HR and logistics) in industrial and retail companies and since 1998 in consulting people, leadership teams as well as working teams and organizations that are all very different. Michael is a co-author in the field of leadership and organizational development with numerous publications.
Reto Püringer has worked for more than 20 years in the banking and insurance industry. He held various senior positions in large international companies such as ABB, UBS, AXA, and Zurich and his practical experience ranges from Strategy Development, Proposition Development/Management, Business/Portfolio Design, large scale change program delivery to Finance/Actuarial. Reto has seen the practical implications on what change means to individuals in their different context and also change that is required from a strategic point of view, the focus in his work was always to find a way to combine both aspects together.