Klaus Schuster

Klaus Schuster

Klaus Schuster (born July 11, 1963 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian non-fiction author, manager , management consultant , executive coach and leadership trainer.

Life

After training and working in a Styrian electronics retailer from 1978 to 1992, Klaus Schuster began working in the banking sector. His management career began in 2001 at Österreichische Volksbank (ÖVAG). From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the board of the Volksbank Slovenia in the ÖVAG group. From 2003 to 2006 he was the project manager responsible for the takeover of the Serbian Trust Banka and the development of Volksbank Serbia. At the same time, he headed the areas of organization, IT, private customer business, controlling, accounting, product management, marketing and human resources of the Serbian ÖVAG subsidiary.

From September 2007 to November 2011, Schuster was a board member of the Slovenian Managers' Association and the first President of the Foreign Managers Section, which he was responsible for establishing. In November 2006 he founded his own consulting company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and has been looking after executives at all levels and in all sectors since then.

Schuster obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the IEDC Bled School of Management in Bled . In 2011 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from the IEDC-Bled School of Management.

Since September 2013, Schuster has been CEO of the financially troubled Slovenian Factor Banka with total assets of one billion euros. In a model that is being used for the first time in Europe, it is intended to specifically process this on behalf of the EU and the Slovenian government in order to avoid the high defaults of bankruptcy.

Activity as an author

Klaus Schuster's management books have been published in German, English, Slovenian, Czech and Hungarian. Schuster does not only come from the “university environment”, but has worked his way up into active management through training and studies. He sees himself primarily as a manager and not just as a theoretician. For him, this results in a strong focus on the manager as a success factor for his company. His books are not intended to sketch what ideal management should look like in theory. They want to describe how the manager can assert himself successfully and with added value in the field of tension between pressure to succeed, material and everyday constraints as well as his own performance and motivation.

Publications

• When managers screw up. The five worst mistakes - and how to prevent them , Redline Verlag , Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-86881-530-6 .
• 11 management sins to avoid. How executives take care of career, mind, spouse and fun , Redline Verlag , Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-86881-038-7 .
• The cheeky bird catches the worm. 7 surprising leadership principles for courageous managers , Redline Verlag , Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-86881-272-5 .
• Do not want to anymore? More fun and motivation in management , Redline Verlag , Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86881-372-2 .
• Manager diseases: From A as in alpha rabies to Z as in zampanitis , Redline Verlag , Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-8688-1540-5 .

Web links

• Klaus Schuster's website
• Review of When managers mess up in the Hamburger Abendblatt
• Literature by and about Klaus Schuster in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in Brand eins business magazine "If you stay, it's your heroes"
2. ↑ Article on Wirtschaftswoche online In search of millions