Leading My Team
The Carrot Fallacy: Why you should stop trying to motivate your team
This post provides the underlying foundation for my ‘Motivation to Start the Week’ weekly inspiration piece.
Learn to Serve & Protect
Leadership starts with you - and carries into your team and your business.
Dr. Peter von Wartenberg did not merely get to know modern leadership approaches - he applied them himself for many years, with real decisions and real responsibility. He guides executives and organisations towards leadership that works: lead yourself first, then your team, then your business.
Self-leadershipTeam leadershipBusiness leadership
The path
Three levels that build on each other
Not a kit of three separate offers, but one path: first you learn to lead yourself. Leading your team builds on that. And leading your business builds on both.
The three levels form a cycle: from step 03 the path leads back to step 01.
Learn toServe & Protect
Click a level for more details
BRAND STORY
The Rising Arcs
Four layers, one idea: leadership grows outward from a single person. Click each layer of the mark - or a card on the right - to see what it stands for.
Tap an arc - for more about that layer
THE CENTER · YOUThe Person
THE CENTER · YOU
Every arc rises from the same point. Before there is a team or a business, there is one person willing to go first. The dot is you - grounded on the baseline, at the centre of everything the mark shelters.
FIRST ARC
The arc closest to the person, and the brightest. Self-leadership comes first: your values, your energy, your discipline. You can't give clarity you don't have - every wider circle inherits its shape from this one.
SECOND ARC
One step wider: the people entrusted to you. Held over the dot like a roof, this arc makes the 'serve & protect' promise visible - your team grows under the shelter you build, not in your shadow.
THIRD ARC
The widest reach and the strongest line. Leading a business means setting direction, culture and systems that outlast any single decision - a horizon the inner circles can rise toward.
Blog
Ideas for everyday leadership
Short, hands-on articles about self-leadership, team dynamics and entrepreneurial responsibility.
Leading Myself
Make your bed! 4 lessons from a Navy SEAL admiral to kick-start your week.
Before we get back into the swing of things today – here’s a ritual I’ve been using for years and which I’ve also used in keynote speeches.
Leading Myself
Tears on the plane: What "Die Stille Revolutiion" taught me about leadership
It was a perfectly ordinary business flight. What I hadn’t expected was that, by the end of the film, I was sitting in my seat with tears in my eyes...
About Peter
The person behind PvW
Dr. Peter von Wartenberg works with executives and organisations - through keynotes, leadership development, executive sparring, and team and culture development. His perspective comes from almost three decades at Bosch: from first assignments in logistics to executive and general management functions, with international postings including Brazil and the USA.
The sentence at the top of this page is older than all of that. Peter came across “Serve and Protect” while serving with the German armed forces, among other roles as a military police officer, in Washington D.C. “Learn to” he added himself - why, he tells on his own page.
1996
Start in industry
almost three decades
Career inside the group
Brazil & USA
International postings
