In February 2020 I wrote a blog entitled “Innovation in Germany” in which I expressed my concerns and also criticism about how Germany is falling further behind in terms of innovation and new technologies. The real technological innovations continue to come mostly from Silicon Valley or for example from countries […]
“Made in Germany” still exists! Read More »
Remote work is one of the terms that did not only have a strong impact on the year 2020, but will also continue to shape the future of our working lives. I am very much convinced about that. Of course, you can’t operate the checkout in the supermarket from your
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In August, after German football club FC Bayern Munich won the Champions League final and thus the famous “triple” (Champions League, German championship and German national Cup) for the second time, I wrote a blog entitled “The coach is the better trainer”. After the triple, in the same season, the
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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
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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
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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
15 years later – a retrospective on Intel Read More »
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
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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
Remote management – what’s new? Read More »
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
Some thoughts about 2020 Read More »
