Arguments “I don´t want us to argue.” – most likely we´ve all said or heard that sentence before. However, arguments have always been an integral part of human communication. We experience them in our daily lives, in the media, as a commentary in political debate and social issues. In our social and private life, in…
Business Punk (Part 5) – KPIs and Bonus When I joined industry, the payment system was quite different from today: We agreed on an annual compensation, done. After some years the system changed, and salary became more and more split into fixed and variable components. The logic: Support entrepreneurial behavior. Train a workforce that is…
Business Punk (Part 4) – Tact or Truth? In an intercultural context, Germans are not ranked high: They tend to be impolite, show no sense of humor, may be seen harsh, and they are certainly not the most diplomatic people of this planet (as we may see with our actual foreign minister). Diplomacy is a…
Resilient People (Part 3) – Overoptimized Life We all know how buy our days can be. We tend to optimize. Us. Our life. Our work. Our teams. Our organization……and we understand it is not healthy. The Swiss psychiatrist Daniel Hell, professor emeritus specialized on depression, recently gave an interview published by NZZ. For me the…
Resilient People (Part 2) – Flow Our life is like this: Noone ever asked whether we would like to be born. You get thrown in this life like a fish in the cold water of a river. Noone ever asked if you would like to swim or not. Whatever will happen – you will not…
Who am I – Manager or Men-ager? Most of us claim to be good managers – or we would no longer be in our position. A great moment to reflect this self-assessment, maybe backed on feedback. When is a manager a manager and when is a manager great? To manage an organization provides direction and…
Who´s perfect? Our days seem to have no time for normal: We run, we “fight”, we are agile, we are fit, we excel, we compete who is the – best, nicest, most aggressive, most successful…
…one superlative is following the next…
Are Old People Relevant? We live in interesting times. We claim we do not want to discriminate, but we discriminate every day. „Discriminare“ (latin) translates to „differenciate, separate, split“. It is a neutral word indicating an activity but no emotion. Is discrimination ugly and bad? Or is it just normal? I am a male, white,…
We live in interesting times. We believe our times are more hectic than ever, and the result is stress. Stressed people may tend to react harsh, and such reactions may contribute to a spiral of emotion. This may be why one of the buzzwords today is resilience.
We are all individuals. We have our history. We learned during our career what works for us and what is not part of our personality. We have seen people who have been promoted far beyond their potential and skills, and we met those who could do more.
When I was young, punk became a new trend. Most of my generation did not like the aggressive way, punk presented itself and punkers outfit was supposed to be a provocation.
