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 […]
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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
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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
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Back in March I wrote a blog titled “An entire company in the home office”. Time is flying, four months later I am still working from home and it somehow feels like the often quoted “new normal”. I do not like this term too much, but in this case it
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I am sure, nearly everybody heard this question already in a job interview, in an annual review discussion or just in a private chat with a friend: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. At least during the last twenty years, I always had a bit of a problem
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Extreme situations sometimes require extreme actions and often also cause extreme behavior. Not only two world wars have proven that, also numerous other events and incidents around the world every day. Very often ethical principles are just thrown overboard. While not comparable with events like the second world war, Covid-19
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“I know that I know nothing” is a quote attributed to Socrates. Even if it is not really proven whether he literally said that, in my opinion it fits very well these days. Over the last four to five weeks I spent much more time surfing the internet and watching
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This little nasty thing called Coronavirus has changed the world in a few weeks. I must admit that still in February I did not pay a lot of attention to the whole story and just filed it under “just another flu virus”. Now as I am writing this, I am
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Germany is still often referred to as the “land of poets and thinkers”. The fact that, according to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, there are over seven million so-called functional illiterates in this country somehow doesn’t really fit the picture. But the Germans themselves still prefer to call
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