Career Management
Managing a career deliberately — transitions, positioning, and being your own manager.
- What If? — Standing at Fisterra, the End of the World, where people once believed the earth simply stopped, Bernhard Kerres reflects on what it takes to question a deeply held belief. He turns that into one of coaching's most powerful moves: the "what if" question, and shows why asking it before examining a client's belief system is what makes real exploration possible. First published in Coach Magazine Global, Issue 5, 2023.
- Move One Position at a Time — Mountain climbers learn one rule first: only ever move one of your four points of contact at a time. The other three are your safety system. Bernhard Kerres applies the same rule to change management — career transitions, organizational restructures, leadership succession — and argues that the most common failure mode in change is the urge to move too many positions at once.
- Knowledge Work Is Not Where You Sit — Senior executives often ask: how do I know my team is actually working when I cannot see them? The question reveals more than they intend. Drawing on Drucker's 1959 concept of the knowledge worker, Bernhard Kerres argues that knowledge-work productivity depends on four factors — purpose, social support, responsibility, and trust — and none of them depend on physical location.