Resilience is a term that currently comes up very often in articles and lectures these days, clearly also because of the Corona crisis. The term resilience actually has its roots in physics and refers to the restoring force or spring force of a material, i.e. the extent to which a …
I am sure a lot of people know the phenomenon that I have experienced very often in the many years that I have worked in B2B sales. If business is running like clockwork, if annual targets which have been considered completely unrealistic still at the beginning of the year were …
Recently the news hit home that Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of VMware, will become CEO of Intel, the company he worked for already between 1979 and 2009. He himself even called it “coming home to Intel”. This reminded me that I left Intel nearly exactly 15 years ago after having …
A few days ago, I read an article that dealt with the question of managers about the meaning of their work. Specifically, it was about managers who wanted to make a change in their career despite the Corona crisis. This was obviously triggered by questions like “What actually keeps me …
In a few years, a management coach doing a training session will probably describe the year 2020 as the inflection point for remote management. Several managers, who were used to have their team members around them every single day, have faced a real challenge in 2020. Maybe not so much …
Almost everyone might agree with me when I say that 2020 was a very special year, to put it carefully. At least for those who did not grow up during or immediately after the Second World War, the year 2020 will be engraved in memory as one of the most …
For many of us it is hard to let go and to transfer responsibility or even decision power to somebody else, basically to provide empowerment. A lot of people still think that first of all only they know exactly what to do, how to do it and, more importantly, how …
In the last weeks I very often heard the following statement: “It will never be the same again”. Most of the time, I noticed a lot of melancholy, doubt and even sadness in the voice and the face of the person rather than confidence or any spirit of optimism. I …
On August 23, 2020, German soccer club FC Bayern Munich won the final of the Champions League and thus the “triple” for the second time after 2013, means the Champions League title, the German championship and the German soccer cup. Still in November 2019, after the disastrous defeat against Eintracht …
