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Rethinking strategic talent and competence management

In an era of rapid technological change and growing complexity, companies are faced with the challenge of not only identifying talent, but also promoting it in a targeted manner and retaining it in the long term. The authors offer innovative perspectives and practical methods for mastering these challenges and future-proofing organizations.

Swinging with the Future

How leadership can succeed in turbulent times

Ensuring the future viability of companies is the guiding star of this book. Based on his many years of consulting and teaching experience, the author develops an integrated thinking model that focuses on the harmony of leadership understanding and organizational design.

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Publications on the topic of talent and succession management

Title	Authors	published
Study shows: DACH companies need to professionalize their talent and succession management	Count	in: personal manager 04/2025
There is still a lot to do! Strategic talent management is risk management	Graf	in: energiekarriere - magazine of the energy industry May 2023
Leading talent! Talent to lead?	Graf/Laske	in: PersonalEntwickeln No.240; May 2021
The application and onboarding process in a (semi-) virtual team	Ruhfus	in: PersonalEntwickeln No.239; March 2019
Leadership development from head to toe. "LEAVOR - Leadership Impact for Business Excellence."	Laske/Oberrauch/Graf	Whitepaper as part of the learning library, June 2017
On a treasure hunt - talent in SMEs	Laske/Graf	in: der Wirtschaftstreuhänder, issue 05-06, November 2013
Leading talent! Talent to lead? Reflections on a "moose test for managers"	Graf/Laske	in: Kaltenbrunner/Urnik: (ed.): Corporate Management - State of the Art and Development Perspectives, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, p. 293 - 313, May 2012
Still a lot of wasteland - gender-sensitive talent management	Graf/Laske	in: Personalwirtschaft, Issue 7, p. 32 - 34, July 2011
The search for "talent nuggets" - results of an empirical study	Graf/Sonnert	in: Personalmagazin, issue 1/2011, p. 30 - 32, January 2011
Best of Talent Management: Not for the short-sighted	Graf/Laske	in: Personalwirtschaft, issue 12/2010, p. 18 - 22, December 2010
Basic conceptual considerations for strategic talent management. Talent management is a journey not a destination	Graf/Laske/Tschofen	in: Handbuch PersonalEntwickeln, 144th Supplement, No. 7.49, p. 1 - 28, November 2010
Study shows pent-up demand for talent management in Austrian companies	Graf/Laske	in: Personal Manager page 24 - 26, May 2010
People matter most. The special challenge of finding and developing employees with leadership potential	Graf/Sonnert	in: Personal Manager. Human Resources magazine, March 2010
Internal selection procedures through development centers - the special challenge of strategic personnel development	Graf et. al.	in: Handbuch PersonalEntwickeln, 147th Supplement, No. 7.49, July 2008
Development Center "Future ^Mind®" - an innovative instrument for assessing potential and selecting employees	Graf et. al.	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Concepts put to the test; Vienna , 2007

Publications on the topic of Organizational Learning & Leadership

Title	Author	published
HR as a wallflower - professionalization is needed	Laske	PersonalEntwickeln No. 290 June 2023
Lamentation fasting - an exercise not just for Lent	Laske/Oberrauch	PersonalDevelopment No. 278, June 2022
Leadership and trust in life	Graf/Laske	Whitepaper August 2020
Partnerships	Laske	Whitepaper July 2020
What now? What to do! Becoming robust for crises	Graf/Laske	Whitepaper April 2020
Succession management - the hydra of self-indulgence	Graf	whitepaper March 2020
The process of handing over a business - "May the exercise succeed"	Laske	netzwerk tirol 07/2019
Reverse mentoring - More than "technological tutoring for oldies"	Laske/Oberrauch	PersonalEntwickeln No. 241 May 2019
"Level 1 leadership - the opportunist"	Count	Whitepaper May 2018
Mystery Lunch - "Guess who's coming to lunch."	Laske/Sonnert	PersonalEntwickeln, No. 227 March 2018
Turning leadership development from head to toe. "LEAVOR - Leadership Impact for Business Excellence"	Laske/Oberrauch/Graf	PersonalEntwickeln, No. 222 Delivery 7.77 October 2017
Dynaxity and VUCA. How professional management of high performance organizations can succeed. Part 1	Count	PersonalEntwickeln, No. 206. delivery No. 5.110, June 2016
Managers are not better drivers! The Dunning-Kruger effect and the self-image of many managers?	Graf	Whitepaper December 2014
Learning connects. Development and regeneration of our brain	Graf	whitepaper August 2014
Reflection - a source of personal development - a brief introduction!	Graf	whitepaper July 2014
Understanding leadership in maturity level IV needs enthusiasm!	Graf	whitepaper June 2014
Competence development for managers - an integrative approach to personnel and organizational development	Graf/Laske	in: Barthel et. Al (ed.): "Integrated competence management.", January 2012
Putting leadership skills to the test - a case study on strategic leadership development	Graf/Laske	Handbook PersonnelDevelopment 147th ed. March 2011
Management put to the test. Strategic personnel development	Graf et al.	Insight page 36 - 37, March 2008
Internal selection procedures through development centers - the special challenge of strategic personnel development	Graf et al.	in: Handbuch PersonalEntwickeln 122nd Supplement, July 2008
Leadership theory: Fundamentals and current developments	Stingl/Graf	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Concepts put to the test, 2007

Publications on the topic of cultural transformation

Title	Author	Published
What now? What to do! Becoming robust for crises	Graf/Laske	Whitepaper - Learning Nugget April 2020
Mystery lunch - "Guess who's coming to lunch."	Laske/Sonnert	PersonalEntwickeln, 227th, March 2018
Dynaxity and VUCA. How professional management of high performance organizations can succeed. Part 1	Count	PersonalEntwickeln, 206th delivery, No. 5.110, page 1 - 39, June 2016
The Change Promoters Programme (CPP) for anchoring change in organizations - a case study	Graf, Jordan-Michel Laske	Change management course, Office for Continuing Education, Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol, "Internal employee training and projects" October 2014
Strategic succession planning - with the succession risk matrix	Graf/Laske/Sonnert	PersonalManager issue, page 12 - 17, December 2013
Intervention skills in personnel and organizational development - basic logic, architecture and main topics of a learning program	Laske et. al.	in: Handbuch PersonalEntwickeln, 147th Supplement, No. 5.72, pp. 1 - 28, March 2011
Management in practice. Strategic personnel development	Graf et. al.	Insight page 36 - 37, March 2008
Competence Center Procurement (CCB) - Paradigm shift in the procurement management of Austrian health insurance providers through the introduction of shared services	Graf e.t al.	Social Security, April 2008
Virtual team management in projects - a process model for the development of high performance teams	Graf	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Concepts in Practice; Vienna, 2007
Development, change and reorganization of companies through transformation management	Graf et. al.	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Konzepte im Praxistest; Vienna, 2007
Project management in organizational and management projects - a special challenge in dealing with complexity and dynamics	Graf/Bergmann	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Concepts in Practice; Vienna, 2007
Organizational design today - a pragmatic approach to developing a high-performance organization	Graf	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Concepts put to the test; Vienna, 2007
Leadership theory: fundamentals and current developments	Stingl/Graf	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Konzepte im Praxistest; Vienna, 2007
Knowledge management in focus: from myth to corporate practice	Stingl/Grillitsch/Graf	in: Neumann/Graf (eds.): Management - Konzepte im Praxistest; Vienna, 2007