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Blitzscaling Is Not Our Story
# 15: “Blitzscaling” Is Not Our Story (Part I) Hoffman, Reid, and Chris Yeh (2018): The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, 279. Story behind the Passage Today I am getting a bit serious. I am already warning you — some people in the German startup scene might get pissed off. But since you know that…
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Tupperware S Brownie Wise Erasing History
Mason, Fergus (2014). Brownie Wise: Tupperware Queen, 85. Story behind the Passage This morning I wanted to write a text about an interview that I had conducted almost a year ago with a medium-sized industrial company. The business has continuously expanded since its founding almost 150 years ago. I had done the interview with the two…
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Diversity As A Personal Brand
Aust, Oliver (2020). Unignorable: Build Your Personal Brand and Boost Your Business in 30 Days, 36. Story behind the Passage When I was still a kid and did something that was typically “Silke,” my parents used to laugh and say: “Gee, you are a brand of your own!” (German: “Du bist eine Marke”). Just to highlight:…
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Among Ghosts What Sells A Book Is Heart
Harris, Robert (2008). The Ghost: One Man Will Uncover the World’s Biggest Conspiracy, 23. Story behind the Passage I am quite diverging from my original plan of talking about startup stories today — but maybe I will not. I have no idea. Let us see where this is going. I just know that I need to write…
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Communication As Life Narrative
McQuail, Denis (2005): McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory, 381. Story behind the Passage It was some weekday morning in the spring of 2007, I was 23 years old and in the second semester of my university studies. The wife of a young colleague of my Dad called me at home. “Silke, my boss is looking for someone…
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Paradigm Shifts And Humility
Covey, Stephen R. (1989). The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, n.p. Story behind the Passage Yes, I know, this is a long screenshot today. And it is not even from a startup story. I have chosen this story today because I had three conversations in the last 24 hours that made me think of it….
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Special The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You Really
# 22 SPECIAL (Part 1): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are My e-mail to PhD candidates, 09/17/2020 Why “Special”? Today is a special blogging day as you can already see in the headline. I have been blogging every day for three weeks now and I…
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Special Part 2 The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You
# 23 SPECIAL (Part 2): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are Urban Dictionary CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY (Read Part 1) What is a real mission? As you can see above, the concept of “mission” is used for businesses as well, including startups. In the following, I…
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Feedback Overkill And Gut Feeling
Hsieh, Tony (2010): Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, 140. Story behind the Passage Just this evening, I was participating in a virtual women’s founder event in Switzerland. In one of the fireside talks, the topic of getting feedback on one’s ideas came up repeatedly. This was when I decided to write about…
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Management By Objectives
Drucker, Peter F. (2005/1954). The Practice of Management, 144. Story behind the Passage The story behind this passage is very simple. I love Peter Drucker! He is my absolute management hero. I love him so much that I spent a whole chapter in my habilitation (second academic book) on his first study about General Motors…