Andreas Gorbach Knihy

The increase in volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in business and society is confronting many managers with the question of which skills they need to adapt or relearn to act effectively as managers in the future. The authors show you that the key to this does not lie in the learning of new management concepts. On the contrary, effective leadership is much more about homing in and focusing on what has not changed, namely the core attitudes and patterns of action inherent in human beings. Content: Leadership as a transformation process A basic framework of patterns of action as a basis for effective leadership and personality growth Morality as the inner orientation and basis for economically sustainable leadership Courage as a catalyst

Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) processes are a promising solution for developing energy-efficient units for gas separation and purification, especially in small-scale applications where compact adsorber design is essential. Achieving high productivity requires short cycle times and the use of small adsorbent particles for fast adsorption kinetics, leading to the concept of Rapid Pressure Swing Adsorption (RPSA). However, challenges such as high pressure drop and low mechanical stability of adsorbents limit the size of particles that can be used. This work explores novel monolithic adsorbent-polymer materials that offer low pressure drop and high mechanical stability. These monoliths are produced by extruding zeolitic polymer matrices with thermoplastic materials, followed by thermal treatment to create a secondary pore structure that enhances mass transport properties. The performance of these new adsorbents is compared to commercial pellets through adsorption equilibria and kinetics studies, using water vapor on a Zeolite 4A-Polyamide compound as a case study. A detailed RPSA process model incorporating developed adsorption models has been validated experimentally. Efficient numerical methods, particularly the Continuous Countercurrent Model (CCM), have been explored to analyze the RPSA process. Simulations demonstrate that the monolithic adsorbents significantly improve productivity by overcoming kinetic and pressure drop l

Die Zunahme von Unbeständigkeit, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Ambiguität in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft stellt viele Führungskräfte vor die Frage, welche Fähigkeiten sie anpassen oder neu erlernen müssen, um als Führungskraft zukünftig wirksam agieren zu können. Die Autoren zeigen Ihnen, dass der Schlüssel dafür gerade nicht im Erlernen von neuen Führungskonzepten liegt. Wirksame Führung basiert im Gegenteil auf einer Reduktion und Fokussierung auf das, was sich nicht verändert, auf zentrale, dem Menschen innewohnende Haltungen und Handlungsmuster.Führung als Transformationsprozess Grundgerüst menschlicher Selbstkonzepte und Handlungsmuster als Basis für wirksame Führung und Persönlichkeitswachstum Moral als innere Orientierung und Grundlage von ökonomisch nachhaltiger Führung Mut als Katalysator