In this book, all personalities presented are asked how they would have dealt with the diesel scandal.
My chapter is about Mary Parker Follet. Mary Parker Follett was a pioneering thinker in management who emphasized as early as 1924 that true leadership consists of creating leaders. Her theories of power, leadership, and conflict resolution are still relevant to management practice today. Despite initial rejection due to her gender, she became a sought-after consultant and lecturer in the USA and England.
Mary Parker Follett would probably have regarded the VW diesel scandal as a failure to resolve the conflict. Instead of dealing with the conflicts between environmental regulations and technical options, VW chose the path of fraud in order to seemingly accommodate both parties. Follett would have emphasized that there is always a third solution that can satisfy both sides if you work on it together. She would also have criticized the power structures within the company, which hindered creative and legal solutions. Unfortunately, her consulting period did not fall in the era of VW, but she probably could have prevented the scandal.
Susanne Kremeier is more than a consultant; she is a pioneer for companies that want to take themselves to the next level of growth and development. With more than two decades of experience in strategic business consulting, she is a master at helping organizations not only design their strategies, but also bringing them to life and turning them into measurable results.
Her academic background in business administration and organizational psychology forms the basis of her methodological approaches. Her diverse career stages, from senior positions in corporations to interim management in SMEs and management, give her the unique ability to put herself in the shoes of her clients and offer tailor-made solutions.
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