2012 Best Management Book Award managementbuch.de (online book portal) Leaders wanted - presence not required. Detlef Lohmann disregards everything universities teach about economy. Hierarchies? Departments? A boss who makes all the decisions? As managing director, Lohmann did away with all that, flipping the classical pyramid structure on its head. By the standards of traditional business management, Lohmann's company cannot exist, let alone flourish. But it does. In fact, his business is extremely successful, flexible and robust. Lohmann discovered that when employees are empowered to work autonomously within the right structural framework, leaders don't have to do anything anymore. Or rather, leaders finally have time to do what leaders should do. And at lunchtime? They go home.

Detlef lohmann is owner and managing director of "allsafe JUNGFALK", a manufacturing company of load restraint systems in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His desire to become an entrepreneur took shape while working as an engineer for major automobile corporations and suppliers. Lohmann found a mid-size manufacturing business and took it upon himself to redesign procedures and optimize work processes to build a real company. Within fifteen years, "allsafe JUNGFALK" added three new business divisions and quadrupled the number of employees. Since 2011, the company has been so lucrative that one sales record chases the other. The company has received many honours for its innovative products and has been rated "TOP JOB best employer" three times. For more information about the company, please visit www.allsafe-group.com