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Start-up Stories Part 1: Courage
22/09/2023
Future Management

Is it actually better to start up early - say in your mid-20s - or later in life, say in your mid-40s? My thesis is: the advantages and disadvantages of founding late versus...
Every beginning holds its own magic
31/03/2023
Management Future

I am not a particular fan of poetry, but I have known a few, few poems by heart since my school days. 'Stufen' by Hermann Hesse is one of them. I think it's great in every way:...
Board sharing at VW
23/05/2023
Future Company Culture Progress

Sometimes, by looking at men in leadership positions you learn most about recruiting women.

Following the departure of Herbert Diess, the CEO of Porsche is now also...
Why women rarely apply to alpha-tier job postings
21/06/2022
Diversity Company Culture Leadership Management

We struggle to find female candidates for management positions, but when it comes to concrete measures to promote diversity in the workplace, we hesitate: Could this divide the...
Looking below the surface: my conversation with Dr. Simone Burel
30/11/2022
Diversity Leadership Management Company Culture

Looking below the surface: my conversation with Dr. Simone Burel

Dr. Simone Burel analyzes the language of companies, organizations, institutions and their...
Why is coming out at work necessary at all?
09/11/2022
Diversity Company Culture

I have often been asked this question by liberal, progressive people. It's not a problem, and it's your business,' was their logic. People who live according to the majority...
Online Marketing Rockstars 2022
18/05/2022
Future Progress

Two days of OMR conference full of insights, experiences and emotions are coming to an end. At the end, I was out and about at the festival with my brother. As First Mayor of...
The Great Resignation
30/05/2022
Leadership Recruiting Company Culture

The 'inner wave of resignation' of the Germans!

The news about the Great Resignation in the USA flares up again. In Germany, the wave of layoffs has not been a big...
Data Minded - completely without algorithms
09/02/2022
Progress Company Culture Future Management

I can't hear this phrase anymore: 'Data is the new oil.' Behind it there is always a vague understanding and the idea that per se money can always be made with data. Business...
The black box in our midst
21/09/2021
Leadership Management Company Culture Recruiting

In the evenings in my office - when the day's appointments are over - I like to reflect on the many conversations I have. Recently, one topic has been occupying my mind more...
Enemies of Progress Part 3: The View from Above
02/03/2021
Progress Future

From my living room, I can look out over Germany's second-largest city. When I look out over Hamburg in the evening like this, I sometimes wonder what someone saw 40 years ago,...
Enemies of Progress Part 2: Criticism of the Becoming and Acceptance of the Existing
04/02/2021
Future Progress

The Elbphilharmonie (Concert Hall in the City of Hamburg) was much more expensive than planned, involving hundreds of millions of euros of taxpayers' money. For years, the...
Enemies of Progress - Part 1: Why we want to look out of airplanes and into washing machines
21/01/2021
Progress Future

You should be able to see inside ovens from the outside. We want to judge the degree of browning of the pizza without having to open the flap and let heat escape unnecessarily....
Good rhetoric in digital formats
16/01/2021
Leadership

What you can learn about effective public speaking from today's speeches by the candidates for the CDU party presidency.

As a party-politically neutral...
What is actually a customer experience?
22/12/2018
Future

It should be continuous and coherent across all "touchpoints". Bullshit. Or does anyone know of any examples? Just because the packaging of an Apple product feels good doesn't...