Category : Future

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...

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,...

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 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....

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...

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...

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:...

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 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...

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...

'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...

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...

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

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....

The decision to change the job or the company is a major challenge and depends on many personal factors. It is therefore not possible to give general advice. But there are...

When it comes to 'correct language', there are now so many rules and prohibitions that it's hard to keep up. The much-discussed gendering is just one area. Recently, I was even...

Anyone starting a new company has a decisive advantage: you can work digitally right from the start. While established companies often stick to analog processes or have to...

You hear these buzzwords all the time when it comes to business models or optimization. But what they really mean often remains unclear.

Today I experienced a great...

At a get-together with former colleagues last week, a photo from a joint business trip to the Pentagon reminded me of how often I have asked myself after more than 20 years in...