Kategorie: Allgemein
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Effectiveness And Strengths
Drucker, Peter F. (2004/1967). The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, 23–24. Story behind the Passage There is hardly any need to talk about Drucker when introducing my passage today. That is partly because Drucker needs no introduction and partly because I talk about him so often. Just yesterday I mentioned…
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Breaking The Tetris Effect
Achor, Shawn (2010). The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles that Fuel Success and Performance at Work, 99. Story behind the Passage There are tough days in the life of an entrepreneur and there are even tougher days. But all these days are really worth it. They take you to places where you do not necessarily wanted…
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The Value Of Networks
Currier, James (2020). The Network Effects Bible, 15. Story behind the Passage Today I gave a workshop for a group of Ph.D. students. It was about “Gender Diversity.” One message I got across was that all diversity issues are cultural issues and therefore, they can primarily be managed by means of communication. And communication theory is…
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Work With Passion
Lelord, Hector (2008). Hector und die Entdeckung der Zeit, 101. Story behind the Passage What is it that you could be doing for 12 hours a day and never get tired of it? I know what this is in my life but the trouble starts when you find out that this in and of itself cannot…
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Courage Is More Important Than Genius
Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters (2014). Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future, 5. Story behind the Passage On some days, writing is fucking hard. It does not happen to me very often but it does. The only thing that makes you go on when something is hard is habit. Habit…
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Seeing The Element Inside
Robinson, Ken (2009). The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, 3. Story behind the Passage The story above touched me so much when I first heard about it that I keep writing and talking about it in different contexts. I am writing “heard” about it because, as far as I remember, I first watched…
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Blitzscaling Is Not Our Story Part Ii Baby Steps Are
www.history.com Story behind the Passage This morning I made the decision to write a follow-up to yesterday’s story because I was not done in a way. I had talked about how the concept of blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman), i.e., super-fast company growth, does not fit into the European/German narrative of entrepreneurship. Today I want to focus…
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Apprenticeship Versus University Education
Coyle, Daniel (2010). The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown, 64. Story behind the Passage I think a lot about education these days. In fact, I always think about education because it is my life — whether I like it or not. It has taken me up to the present to actually realize and acknowledge this because…
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Trump The Talking Doing Gap And American Studies
Sass, Steven A. (1982). The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School 1881–1981, 293. Story behind the Passage Of course, I have to write about the U.S. election today. But I am not going to write about it in the way that people have been talking about it on TV all day, i.e., about…
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Patience The Art Of Standing Still
Carlson, Richard (1997). Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over your Life, 39. Story behind the Passage Today, I almost finished writing my first short book on horseback riding. Most of it is not about horses but about humans — in this case me. When…