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I have just received another rejection from a very suitable candidate because he refuses the remote arrangement for the position (3 days office per week). This issue is...

I have always found the term nonsensical: work is part of life and therefore it cannot be about the balance between work and life, but at best between work and leisure....

As an executive search consultant, you have more conversations with people than in almost any other profession: countless sales meetings, briefings, interviews, networking...

I will conclude my series of the 10th commandment in executive search with the last commandment: 'Give candidates honest and helpful feedback!'

In most cases, feedback...

The next two commandments concern the interviews that companies conduct with candidates. Here I experience the entire spectrum: from those who draw up detailed catalogs of...

Today, there are three commandments at once and they all relate to the recruitment process for executives at companies. While the processes for entry-level positions are often...

In every company there are things that are not going well. Every role in an organization has its challenges and unpleasant sides. The MD sales of one of my former employers...

It is quite simple: If you want to persuade someone to go on a trip with you, you have to tell them where you are going, why you are going, and who you are. That is why I do...

Every recruiter - whether in-house or external - knows it: The problem of the 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau' (jack of all trades) being sought. The CTO position is particularly...

Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing the most important findings from six years of experience in the field of executive search and setting out 10 commandments for...

To summarize briefly: I was able to exceed my goals for this first (half) year of founding the company, but I still have mixed feelings about the new year:

As managing...

'Preparatory accounting'. Just hearing that made me feel queasy. In my entire professional career in companies, there were always departments for all administrative matters, so...

Why the branded hoody helps me build my business.
Not only have I struggled with the sequence of things to do when setting up a business, but also often enough with the...

In the first part of my start-up stories series 'Courage' I described as an advantage of a 'late founding' the fact that with increasing age one usually knows better how to...

I must admit that I have always been unsporty. As a child I could swim and dive quite well, but not everything else. I have painful memories of sports lessons when teams were...

When I took some time off in April, I decided to take a look at the topics of 'Employer Branding' and 'Recruiting' from a theoretical and scientific perspective rather than...

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...

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:...

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...

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

Dr. Simone Burel analyzes the language of companies, organizations, institutions and their...

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...

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 '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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...