5P Method (Part 6) – Profit We call it 5 P method and have 6 parts – how normal are we 😊? Well – how normal we are is simple answered – not really. If we would be normal, we would behave as the majority. In a previous post, we mentioned the bells curve and…
5P Method (Part 5) – Partners Human being are the only species on earth being able to cooperate with individuals they never met and never will meet: During the stone age was a trade of workpieces for fire stone knifes over 4500 km distance – those who made the workpieces never met the customers and…
5P Method (Part 4) Products Most organizations I worked for understood their product being a chemical or biotechnological derived entity. Travelling with a CAS number, a specification to decide about certain physical or chemical aspects. A product often is more with consequences for the whole organization. A contract is a promise. The supplier agrees to…
5P Method (Part 3) – Processes We are all used to work in processes. Organizations learned to organize their work following certain quality regimes like ISO 9001ff, ICH Qx, HACCP, ISO 14000ff, ISO 50000ff just to name a few. Different quality regimes have a different understanding about what we can expect from our colleagues in…
5P Method (Part 2) – People When you look cross organizations and industries – we all claim people are the foundation of our business. We are proud to have the best people in industry and we are all glad and thankful to have them – till the moment something happens, and we have to change:…
5P Method (Part 1) – Analysis Trained to be the managers we are, we are strong believers in analyses – and we are right: A good analysis is telling about weaknesses both in terms of business and organization. Who will do the analyses may not matter: The big consulting companies will do a great jog,…
Training by Moviestar (Part 5) At the end of this year I want to make you aware of another movie that was for me telling in many ways: How do you deal with time? If you watch a movie, do you need immediate action? Do you enjoy different cultures? What was and is one of…
Business Punk (Part 6) | New Business Models (Part 1) | Let´s Spread Light, Hope, Change and Innovation At the end of 2023, different to “normal”, “traditional” Seasons Greetings, I want to share some thoughts, and share with you one activity which failed: It happened to me more than a decade ago, when we were…
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…
